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Contractors' Hotel News, Volume 1, Number 3, Friday, January 29, 1943 (open access)

Contractors' Hotel News, Volume 1, Number 3, Friday, January 29, 1943

Weekly newsletter edited by war workers contracted by the Pacific Naval Base and the Pacific Bridge Company "publishing everything of interest to men of Area 3" (p. 2), including news, editorials, sports articles, and classifieds.
Date: January 29, 1943
Creator: Youtan, Art
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Newsmap. Monday, March 29, 1943 : week of March 19 to March 26, 185th week of the war, 67th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Tunisia, Air offensive, Submarines, Southwest Pacific, Russia, China. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Inset maps show Gulf of Gabes region, Moscow region. Includes photographs: Counter attack at Kasserine, New Navy planes, Enemy hospital ship. Back: Gas. 5 gases are illustrated and described; Lewisite, mustard, tear gas, phosgene and clorpicrin.
Date: March 29, 1943
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Eagle, Volume 1, Number 52, Thursday, April 29, 1943 (open access)

The Eagle, Volume 1, Number 52, Thursday, April 29, 1943

Weekly newsletter published for employees of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation Fort Worth Division containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date: April 29, 1943
Creator: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - April 29, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - April 29, 1943]

Letter from Captain Merril Smith to his wife discussing how Bill Ledbetter has been, asking about their daughter, and telling her that he loves her.
Date: April 29, 1943
Creator: Smith, Merrill
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quartermaster operations. (open access)

Quartermaster operations.

Describes the organization and functions of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps.
Date: April 29, 1943
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 29, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 29, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her squadron commander, classes, a gas mask demonstration, a talk with a Navy pilot, uniforms, and recent correspondence.
Date: August 29, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Dan Melli and Irving Denemark in a Wooded Area]

Photograph of Dan Melli and Irving Denemark standing together in a wooded area. They are wearing U.S. Army uniforms, helmets, and bedrolls.
Date: September 29, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, September 29, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, September 29, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis Sr. on September 29, 1943. He thanks them for the crystal radio set they sent him, and discusses the men from home he's run into in Africa.
Date: September 29, 1943
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers Bearing a Man on a Litter]

Photograph of Irving Denemark and Dan Melli carrying an unnamed soldier on a litter. A man identified as Bernikow stands over the unnamed soldier and holds his hand.
Date: September 29, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers Posing and Eating Apples]

Photograph of five soldiers posing together in a field. They are wearing U.S. Army uniforms, field jackets, and helmets. Bernikow and Dan Melli are eating apples while standing behind the kneeling trio of Irving Denemark and two other soldiers. Several other soldiers are visible near small trees and a truck in the background.
Date: September 29, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers Resting Outside Receiving Medical Station]

Photograph of four uniformed U.S. Army soldiers resting together outside a tent in a wooded area. The tent is identified as a medical receiving station. The men are identified from left to right as Paul O'Connell, Irving Denemark, Dan Melli, and Julian Marchado.
Date: September 29, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers Resting Outside Receiving Medical Station]

Photograph of four uniformed U.S. Army soldiers resting together outside a tent in a wooded area. The tent is identified as a medical receiving station. The men are identified from left to right as Howard Levine, Dan Melli, Irving Denemark, and Julian Marchado.
Date: September 29, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers Treating a Patient on a Litter]

Photograph of Dan Melli, Nathan Levine, and Irving Denemark standing over another soldier who is lying on a litter. Melli sponges the man's face while Denemark is holding and bandaging his left leg. The men are all wearing U.S. Army uniforms and helmets.
Date: September 29, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 29, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 29, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing a check ride, learning to fly the UC-78, dinner at the Wichita stockyards, and ferrying aircraft to Pampa, TX. Written on Friendly Hotels stationary.
Date: October 29, 1943, 3:00 p.m.
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, November 29, 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, November 29, 1943?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing a Lt. Hawthorne (USN), an end to overtime pay, the flow of new pursuit school students, the weather, other WASPs passing through the airfield, needing info from Dick (Colby?), recreation, and gifts and letters from home. Written on the back of two instruction sheets for "fire patrols."
Date: 1943-11-29?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, November 29, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, November 29, 1943]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on November 29, 1943. He discusses football and going to a movie, and wishes for shotguns to go duck hunting with his friend.
Date: November 29, 1943
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, November 29, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Lt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, November 29, 1943]

Letter from Lieutenant Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon about a visit to Little Siberia.
Date: November 29, 1943
Creator: Drew, Edward Allen
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Newsmap. Monday, November 29, 1943 : week of November 18 to November 25, 220th week of the war, 102nd week of U.S. participation

Text describes action on various war fronts: USSR; New Guinea; Gilbert and Marshall Islands; Bougainville; Air Offensive; Italy. Maps: Berlin; Global map. Inset map: Areas under Jap Control. Photograph: An American Army Signal Corps telephone lineman repairs a line in Capriatti. Back : Surprise... a powerful weapon. Photographic sequence of a hatchet attack on a Nazi soldier illustrates text urging whole-hearted cooperation of all to guard military information.
Date: November 29, 1943
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 29, 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 29, 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her lack of good stationary, news from friends, the bad weather, trying and failing to teach a poor class of student pilots, trying to get a position in USAAF Ferrying Command, news from Jackie Cochran, recent gifts, and trying to get leave.
Date: 1943-12-29?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History