[1980 WASP Advisory Board Meeting Minutes] (open access)

[1980 WASP Advisory Board Meeting Minutes]

Meeting minutes from a Women Airforce Service Pilots advisory board meeting in Orlando, Florida, 1980.
Date: September 18, 1980
Creator: Davis, Edna
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Agenda: WASP Historic Monument Committee Meeting, April 18, 1991] (open access)

[Agenda: WASP Historic Monument Committee Meeting, April 18, 1991]

Agenda for the WASP Historic Monument Committee listing action items and discussion points for the April 18, 1991 meeting.
Date: April 18, 1991
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Agenda: WASP Monument Committee Meeting, March 18, 1993] (open access)

[Agenda: WASP Monument Committee Meeting, March 18, 1993]

Agenda for the WASP Memorial Committee listing action items and discussion points for the March 18, 1993 meeting, followed by the meeting minutes on monument progress and reunion plans.
Date: March 18, 1992
Creator: Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Reserve Element Training Newsletter, Ninth Edition, October 19, 1967 (open access)

Air Reserve Element Training Newsletter, Ninth Edition, October 19, 1967

Monthly newsletter for Air Force Reserve personnel containing news and events as well as information about training courses offered by the Continental Air Command.
Date: October 18, 1967
Creator: United States. Department of the Air Force.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Delivery Orders #4] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Orders #4]

Orders for WASP Gayle D. Ewing to ferry a PT-13D aircraft from Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas, to an Air Force base in Dos Palos, California.
Date: February 18, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Female vets saluted with memorial] (open access)

[Clipping: Female vets saluted with memorial]

Newspaper clippings of an article about plans for a memorial honoring WASP veterans and other women who served in the military. The article includes a brief description of the group's service in WWII and photograph of an architect's model of the planned memorial. On the back of the clippings are advertisements for furniture and parts of other articles.
Date: October 18, 1997
Creator: Pisano, Marina
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Gal Pilots of World War II Will Hold Reunion in Texas] (open access)

[Clipping: Gal Pilots of World War II Will Hold Reunion in Texas]

Newspaper clipping from the Albuquerque Journal discussing the upcoming 1972 WASP reunion in Sweetwater, TX. On the back is part of a piece discussing security for the Democratic National Convention.
Date: June 18, 1972
Creator: Albuquerque Journal
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Helen Snapp Obituary] (open access)

[Clipping: Helen Snapp Obituary]

Newspaper clipping of an obituary listing for Helen Wyatt Snapp, a former WASP member, as well as other obituaries and articles about local news.
Date: [2013-02-18..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Those high-flying women] (open access)

[Clipping: Those high-flying women]

Newspaper clipping about the WASP, their training, and how they contributed to the war effort.
Date: March 18, 1979
Creator: Keil, Sally
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "WASP Visitor Center Planned Here"] (open access)

[Clipping: "WASP Visitor Center Planned Here"]

Newspaper clipping with a picture of the construction of the WASP Visitor Center on one side and information about upcoming events on the other side.
Date: August 18, 2000
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Welcome to Molly's World - 1944] (open access)

[Clipping: Welcome to Molly's World - 1944]

Copy of a magazine about women's participation in World War II aviation.
Date: April 18, 2001
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Women Pilots Finally Recognized] (open access)

[Clipping: Women Pilots Finally Recognized]

Full page from the Stars and Stripes featuring a column by Patricia Collins Hughes discussing the upcoming graduation of ten female pilots from the USAF and the history of female pilots in the United States' military. The page also includes an ad for the VA featuring cartoon character Beetle Bailey and a column written by the chairman of the NAVPA. The reverse of the page contains the newspaper's masthead, letters to the editor, and an editorial about S&S-Grams.
Date: August 18, 1977
Creator: Hughes, Patricia Collins
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Women, Wings and War] (open access)

[Clipping: Women, Wings and War]

Photocopy of an article discussing Margaret Harper's experience serving in the WASP, duties she was given, the discontinuation of the WASP, and sexual discrimination against female veterans. Another article about the history and preservation of WASP history in Texas Woman's University is also included.
Date: July 18, 1989
Creator: Porter, Bob
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Email from Caro Bosca to Lucile Wise, June 18, 2006] (open access)

[Email from Caro Bosca to Lucile Wise, June 18, 2006]

Email from Caro Bosca to Lucile Wise discussing the proposal to hire an Executive Director. She responds to Wise's reservations concerning the proposed position's title, salary, and duties.
Date: June 18, 2006
Creator: Bosca, Caro Bayley
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Email from Catherine A. Murphy to Friends, April 18, 2006] (open access)

[Email from Catherine A. Murphy to Friends, April 18, 2006]

Printout of an email from Catherine A. Murphy to her friends advising them of her new email address and fax number. Two of the email addresses are underlined in blue ink.
Date: April 18, 2006
Creator: Murphy, Catherine A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Email From David Stallman to Marianne Wood, April 18, 2009] (open access)

[Email From David Stallman to Marianne Wood, April 18, 2009]

Electronic message from David Stallman to Marianne Wood, sent on Saturday, April 18, 2009 discussing Helen Snapp's confirmation of the source of several photographs that Stallman gives to Wood to use. It includes a printed Excel document with the personal information of several Women Airforce Service Pilots, all collected by Stallman, in addition to Women Pilots' Statistics and several pages of photographs of WASPs in both black and white and color.
Date: April 18, 2009
Creator: Stallman, David
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Employee Guidance Form - Suzette Van Daell (open access)

[Employee Guidance Form - Suzette Van Daell

Employee Guidance Form for Suzette Van Daell evaluating her performance as a member of of the Women Airforce Service Pilots at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. The form asks 16 various questions over work ethic regarding various tasks, and all questions except the last three were marked as B, equaling a total of 60, or "Good."
Date: December 18, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Envelope Addressed to Rigdon Edwards] (open access)

[Envelope Addressed to Rigdon Edwards]

Envelope addressed to Rigdon Edwards in Sweetwater, Texas, from Jeanette Jenkins.
Date: March 18, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Jeanette J.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Bee Haydu, April 18, 1980] (open access)

[Letter from Bee Haydu, April 18, 1980]

Letter from Bee Haydu discussing a letter from Lillian Roberts and an upcoming vote within the Order of Fifinella organization.
Date: April 18, 1980
Creator: Haydu, Bernice Falk
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Betty White to Charlyne Creger, May 18, 1976] (open access)

[Letter from Betty White to Charlyne Creger, May 18, 1976]

Letter from Betty White to Charlyne Creger informing her that she might not attend the trip they plan for June.
Date: May 18, 1976
Creator: White, Betty
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from C. E. Boyd, October 18, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from C. E. Boyd, October 18, 1951]

Copy of a letter from C. E. Boyd requesting that Rosa C. Creger be transferred closer to home in order to provide care for her ill mother. He mentions that Ms. Creger's brother, Charles L. Creger was also wounded and cannot fully attend to her ill mothers needs.
Date: October 18, 1951
Creator: Boyd, C. E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, April 18, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, April 18, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, probably to her parents, discussing news from home, being grounded by weather, recreating, a brief flight in a P-51, Officer Training School, and living arrangements. Typed on 5th Ferrying Group stationary.
Date: April 18, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 18, 1943?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 18, 1943?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, probably to her parents, discussing her trip from Jacksonville to Dallas. Written on Hotel Texas (Fort Worth) stationary.
Date: 1943-08-18?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 18, 1944?] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 18, 1944?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing a new pen, flying, dinner, and catching an airliner. Written on American Airlines stationary.
Date: 1944-08-18?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History