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[Clipping: Generals Visit Avenger]
Newspaper clipping explaining the significant the role Jacqueline Cochran played in forming the Women Airforce Service Pilots organization. The clipping also shares a brief history of Avenger Field and includes a report from a German spy to the Gestapo.
Date:
May 11, 1943
Creator:
Bowles, Mary A. & Hart, Mary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Second Class Graduates]
Newspaper clipping describing the maintenance process for the airplanes used by the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The clipping also describes the renovations at Avenger Field's Medical Department and graduation ceremony for the class of 43-W-2.
Date:
June 28, 1943
Creator:
Buchner, Faith & Helburn, Margaret
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Class 3 Achieves First Goal]
Newspaper clipping describing the quality of the parachutes used at Avenger Field and the Link training process for the WASPs. The clipping also provides details about the graduation ceremony for the Women AIrforce Service Pilots, class of 43-W-3.
Date:
July 26, 1943
Creator:
Clements, Betty; Seip, Margaret & Baumgartner, Ann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: 318th Graduates Largest Class]
Newspaper clipping describing the activities of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, class of 43-W-4, the type of meals they were served at Avenger Field and the details of their graduation ceremony.
Date:
September 12, 1943
Creator:
Welz, B. J. & Gardner, Elizabeth L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Charlyne Creger]
Newspaper clipping describing the details of the graduation ceremony for the final class of Women Airforce Service Pilots at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas.
Date:
1945
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Earhart Memorial]
Newspaper clipping discussing the details of a $1000 Graduate Scholarship grant for professional women to study engineering with a specialization in aeronautics.
Date:
1947
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Elite Nurses]
Newspaper clipping showing a photo of Charlyne Creger (third from left) with other nurses and stating that they have been awarded an academic scholarship from the Houston Florist Telegraph Delivery association.
Date:
August 25, 1948
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Former 37'er Wears Wings of a WASP]
Newspaper clipping announcing that Rosa Charlyne Creger received her WASP wings at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas as part of the final class of the Women Airforce Service Pilots( U.S.).
Date:
1944
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History