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[Business and Defense Coordinator Instructions for Filing] (open access)

[Business and Defense Coordinator Instructions for Filing]

Booklet of instructions for filing from Business and Defense coordinator, Edition 3, No. 28. There are indexes and chapters of instructions.
Date: June 4, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: To "One of Sweetwater's Own"] (open access)

[Clipping: To "One of Sweetwater's Own"]

Newspaper clipping of a photo and caption titled "One of Sweetwater's Own" depicting a class of women pilots standing on an air strip in formation during the graduation ceremony.
Date: June 4, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, May 4, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, May 4, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, most likely addressed to her parents, discussing encounters with wildlife, recreation, an upcoming visit from Generals George C. Marshall and Hap Arnold, changing flight instructors, and somebody blowing reveille in the middle of the night as a prank.
Date: May 4, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 3, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 3, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing a Navy pilot who crashed in a river, the Mississippi River and flying over Vicksburg, waiting with 29 ferrying pilots at a municipal airport, and getting dinner and a bath at a hotel while waiting for a flight. Written on Hotel Heidelberg (Jackson) stationary.
Date: November 4, 1943, 12:00 a.m.
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 4, 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 4, 1943?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing an upcoming flight, clothes, an acquaintance having a car accident, bonds, the weather, flying to an airfield on the border, and spending the night in Mexico. Typed and written on Hutson Hotels stationary.
Date: 1943-10-04?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, November 4, 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, November 4, 1943?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent correspondence, her friend Bobby, hoping to fly east, and food from her father. Typed on Santa Rita Hotel (Tucson) stationary.
Date: 1943-11-04?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cpt. Thomas Kuenning to Mickey McLernon, October 4, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cpt. Thomas Kuenning to Mickey McLernon, October 4, 1943]

Letter from Captain Thomas Kuenning to Mickey McLernon discussing how he feels about being in Africa.
Date: October 4, 1943
Creator: Kuenning, Thomas E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Frank X. Mara to Joe B. Plosser and Charles A. Prince, May 4, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Frank X. Mara to Joe B. Plosser and Charles A. Prince, May 4, 1943]

Letter from Frank X. Mara to Joe B. Plosser and Charles A. Prince discussing a recent wire transfer from Plosser and Prince to Mara and Mara's willingness to help Plosser and Prince in their endeavor to reinstate their government contract.
Date: May 4, 1943
Creator: Mara, Frank X.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jacqueline Cochran to Catherine Parker, December 4, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Jacqueline Cochran to Catherine Parker, December 4, 1943]

Copy of a letter from Jacqueline Cochran to Catherine Parker discussing the changes to her scheduled Women's Airforce Service Pilot training class.
Date: December 4, 1943
Creator: Cochran, Jacqueline
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, July 4, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Lt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, July 4, 1943]

Letter from Lieutenant Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon discussing his friends' deployment to Africa, Mickey's job as a mechanic, and making conversation.
Date: July 4, 1943
Creator: Drew, Edward Allen
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, July 4, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Lt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, July 4, 1943]

Letter from Lieutenant Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon discussing past correspondence.
Date: July 4, 1943
Creator: Drew, Edward Allen
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memo from Thomas P. Hennessey, June 4, 1943] (open access)

[Memo from Thomas P. Hennessey, June 4, 1943]

Memo from Thomas P. Hennessey explaining the proper format to use when filling out form 1 and stating the penalties of failing to properly fill out and send the forms.
Date: June 4, 1943
Creator: Hennessey, Thomas P.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memo from William H. Turner, June 4, 1943] (open access)

[Memo from William H. Turner, June 4, 1943]

Memo from William H. Turner discussing the significance of filling out forms 1 and 1A along with instructions of how to properly fill out the forms.
Date: June 4, 1943
Creator: Turner, William H.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Lt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, January 4, 1943]

Postcard from Lieutenant Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon discussing the "Creeping J" and telling her to write back if she doesn't remember him.
Date: January 4, 1943
Creator: Drew, Edward Allen
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram from Maxine Howard to Eleanor McLernon, October 4, 1943] (open access)

[Telegram from Maxine Howard to Eleanor McLernon, October 4, 1943]

Western Union telegram from Maxine Howard to Eleanor McLernon informing her that interviews for the Women's Flying Training Program will take place October 7 and 8 at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio.
Date: October 4, 1943
Creator: Howard, Maxine
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Grand Jury Decision, January 19, 1943] (open access)

[Transcript of Grand Jury Decision, January 19, 1943]

Statement of Grand Jurors impaneled in the District Court of the United States Northern District of Texas regarding their decision on indictments against eleven defendants accused of fraudulent representation to agents of the Defense Plant Corporation. In the decision, the jurors find that the defendants did commit "unlawful conspiracy" with an outline of sixteen instances and pieces of evidence of relation to the case.
Date: February 4, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History