A Question of Equity: The WASP in World War II (open access)

A Question of Equity: The WASP in World War II

Essay by former Women Airforce Service Pilot, Eleanor Brown, discussing the history and importance of the WASP and their long struggle for militarization. Included are a photocopied newspaper clipping describing the resistance to militarization and a small note about the essay. Various grammatical and syntactical corrections are handwritten in pen throughout the piece.
Date: December 2, 1982
Creator: Brown, Eleanor
Object Type: Paper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Wasp Newsletter, December 1986 (open access)

The Wasp Newsletter, December 1986

Newsletter of the former World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots including news, events, stories about the group's history, and other information of interest to the members.
Date: December 1986
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Women Airforce Service Pilots Reunited] (open access)

[Clipping: Women Airforce Service Pilots Reunited]

Photocopy of a newspaper clipping showing photos of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, classes of 43-W-6 and 43-W-7.
Date: December 10, 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
WASP Regional News, Area One, Volume 3, Number 1, December 3, 1988 (open access)

WASP Regional News, Area One, Volume 3, Number 1, December 3, 1988

Regional newsletter for the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II with information on aviation news, upcoming reunions, and future newsletters. The brief newsletter is addressed on the back to WASP, June S. Leckie.
Date: December 3, 1988
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Homer K. Taylor to Joan McKesson, Dec. 11, 1984] (open access)

[Letter from Homer K. Taylor to Joan McKesson, Dec. 11, 1984]

Letter from Homer K. Taylor to Joan McKesson discussing the possibility of the town of Sweetwater hosting the 1986 WASP reunion.
Date: December 11, 1984
Creator: Taylor, Homer K.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987

Interview with Charley Pryor, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Elmore City, Oklahoma. Pryor discusses joining the Marine Corps, operations with the North China Marines in Tsingtao, interactions with Japanese troops before the war, surviving the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30), being captured and participating in a Japanese landing on Java, thoughts on Japanese soldiers and military life, experiences working on the Burma Railway in Thailand, experiences in internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia and a camp at Kachanaburi in Thailand, liberation, and postwar service.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lore Price, December 3, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lore Price, December 3, 1989

Interview with Lore Price, a Holocaust survivor from Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany. Price discusses her family, growing up, antisemitism, the Kristallnacht and subsequent growth of arrests and deportations, the Berlin ghetto, the Riga ghetto, the Riga concentration camp and events there, transfer to camps at Stutthof and Thorn, a forced march to Bromberg, escaping and hiding, becoming a nurse with Polish soldiers, the end of the war and immigration to Israel, and reflections on the experience of the Holocaust.
Date: December 3, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Price, Lore
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eugene Nielsen, December 11, 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eugene Nielsen, December 11, 1989

Interview with Eugene Nielsen, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Logan, Utah. Nielsen discusses his prewar assignment to Corregidor Island, the Battles of Bataan and Corregidor, capture by the Japanese, experiences in internment at Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan, and Palawan, surviving the Palawan Massacre, and his rescue by Filipinos and American forces. Included is Nielsen's obituary of February 6, 2011.
Date: December 11, 1989
Creator: Burlage, George & Nielsen, Eugene
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library