[Clipping: The WASPS] (open access)

[Clipping: The WASPS]

Photocopied magazine clipping about the squadron that led to the use of women in military aviation and life as a WASP.
Date: January 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "WASPs Fitted For Uniforms"] (open access)

[Clipping: "WASPs Fitted For Uniforms"]

Newspaper clipping of the 10th issue of The Avenger. It includes 12 articles that update the reader about events in Avenger Field.
Date: January 7, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medical Consideration of WASP (open access)

Medical Consideration of WASP

Report on the physical, psychological, medical, and emotional capabilities of women in aviation, formed from several studies on the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The report concludes that women can typically meet all requirements for safe flight without hindrance, and suggests that any similar future program to the WASP should be militarized.
Date: December 20, 1944
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 22, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 22, 1944]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing a trip from Houston to Dallas, new bedspreads, recent correspondence, and ferrying planes.
Date: August 22, 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, August 22, 1944]

Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing traveling between Selma, AL, and Houston. The postcard features an image of an AT-6 in flight.
Date: August 22, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 20, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 20, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing ferrying aircraft and trouble with weather, flying between Dallas, Wichita, Pampa, and Walnut Ridge, her friends, and food. Written on Hotel Chisca (Memphis) starionary.
Date: January 20, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History