[Historic Marker Application: Women Airforce Service Pilots] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Women Airforce Service Pilots]

Application material submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for Avenger Field, located on the Texas State Technical College campus in Sweetwater, Texas. The page contains the inscription text of the marker with asterisks indicating various letter sizing requests.
Date: 1993
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Secret role of women fliers recalled] (open access)

[Clipping: Secret role of women fliers recalled]

Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP being hidden from public knowledge, including the U.S. Department of Defense withholding veteran status from the women who served in WWII. The article includes a photograph of a group of young women in jumpsuits walking away from a small propeller plane. On the back of the clipping is a large advertisement for a sale, and part of an article about Fort Concho.
Date: November 24, 1991
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interview with Dr. Roosevelt Alcorn, February 28, 1991 captions transcript

Interview with Dr. Roosevelt Alcorn, February 28, 1991

Interview with Dr. Roosevelt Alcorn of Texas Medical Center in Houston. In the interview, Dr. Alcorn discusses his background, specialties, and the medical field in general.
Date: February 28, 1991
Creator: Alcorn, Roosevelt & McCaleb, Gary
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Declassified reports show Holocaust began in 1941 on Soviet soil (open access)

Declassified reports show Holocaust began in 1941 on Soviet soil

Newspaper article from The Houston Chronicle, discussing new evidence uncovered about the beginning of the Holocaust in 1941.
Date: November 11, 1996
Creator: Dobbs, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The Portal to Texas History