[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 11, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 11, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing traveling and ferrying aircraft. Written on Hotel Lenox (Buffalo) stationary.
Date: September 11, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, September 10, 1944]

Postcard from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing traveling to Buffalo to pick up a P-40 bound for Florida. The postcard features an image of a USAAF P-40 in flight.
Date: September 10, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, September 30, 1944]

Postcard from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing getting some pants fitted and eating dinner at the airport. The postcard features a photo of the Sunken Garden at Brackenridge Park in San Antonio.
Date: September 30, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Robert Hoe, September 20, 2003

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Interview with Robert Hoe, a Navy WWII veteran of the China-Burma-India theater from Le Roy, New York. Hoe discusses growing up, the reaction to Pearl Harbor, attending college, enlisting in the Navy, training and becoming an officer, joining the Navy Scouts and Raiders, deployment to China and assignment to the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, supplying their forces, operations with guerilla fighters against the Japanese occupation, intelligence gathering, his reaction to the atomic bomb, the end of the war, service in China and discharge, and life as a civilian.
Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Hoe, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Seidel, September 7, 1999

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Interview with Robert Seidel, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Elkhart, Indiana, who served in the 763rd Bomb Squadron in the European Theater. Accompanied by his wife Helen, Seidel discusses his family, the start of the war and joining the Air Corps, training as a flight engineer, assignment to the B-24 and deployment to Spinazzola, Italy, flying combat missions, life at the base, ditching his aircraft near Salzburg and getting captured, being interrogated, internment at Stalag Luft IV, liberation, and returning to the US. In appendix are three photos of Seidel, his B-24 crew, and their aircraft, Seidel's papers from when he was a German prisoner, his POW log book, the official narrative report of the mission he was lost on, and a letter from his family while he was in Italy.
Date: September 7, 1999
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Seidel, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Program: In Memory of Jacqueline Cochran] (open access)

[Program: In Memory of Jacqueline Cochran]

Program for the funeral of Women Airforce Service Pilots leader, Jacqueline Cochran.
Date: September 1980
Creator: Patrick Air Force Base
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Order of Fifinella Meeting Agenda] (open access)

[Order of Fifinella Meeting Agenda]

A board meeting agenda for the WASP organization, Order of Fifinella, Inc.
Date: September 18, 1980
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mañana Viernes 11 De Septiembre A Las 11AM : Ros-Lehitnen Honrará A Helen Snapp En Su Hogar De Century Village; Helen Es Una De Las Mujeres Pilotos Del Servicio De La Fuerza Aérea De La Segunda Guerra Mundial (open access)

Mañana Viernes 11 De Septiembre A Las 11AM : Ros-Lehitnen Honrará A Helen Snapp En Su Hogar De Century Village; Helen Es Una De Las Mujeres Pilotos Del Servicio De La Fuerza Aérea De La Segunda Guerra Mundial

A press release from Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehitnen for a reception for Helen Snapp. It details a reception at Snapp's house that is not open to the public, but press is invited. All of the WASPs are going to receive the Congressional Gold Medal.
Date: September 10, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Miami Poem]

Postcard with a photo of a woman pouring sand out of her shoe, entitled "Sand In My Shoes", along with a poem about Miami by Letha Madden. A handwritten note addressed to Miss Helen Aten from John Hofnagle says "Dear Moptop- I had a swell ride on a sight-seeing boat on Sunday 3 1/2 hrs 43 min. I'm leaving Miami soon. John."
Date: September 1942
Creator: Hofnagle, John
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with David Lee Hill, September 20, 2003 transcript

Oral History Interview with David Lee Hill, September 20, 2003

Interview with David Lee "Tex" Hill of San Antonio, Texas, a veteran from the United States Navy during World War II in the China-Burma-India Theater. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences while in the Navy, including memories of pre-war flight training in Florida, the Flying Tigers, and the Salween River Gorge attack.
Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Cox, William G. & Hill, David Lee
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with David Lee Hill, September 20, 2003 (open access)

Oral History Interview with David Lee Hill, September 20, 2003

Interview with David Lee "Tex" Hill of San Antonio, Texas, a veteran from the United States Navy during World War II in the China-Burma-India Theater. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences while in the Navy, including memories of pre-war flight training in Florida, the Flying Tigers, and the Salween River Gorge attack. There is a photograph and a short biography of Hill after the interview transcription.
Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Cox, William G. & Hill, David Lee
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History