[Captain Promotion Certificate] (open access)

[Captain Promotion Certificate]

A certificate promoting Clifford R. Baird to a Captain in the U.S. Army, Air Corps.
Date: May 26, 1947
Creator: United States. Army. Air Corps.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photo of Cecelia McKie standing next to her scrapbooks]

Photograph of Cecelia McKie standing next to the scrapbooks she kept of messages she sent to civilian internees and P.O.W.'s families and the thank you letters she received from 2/5/1943-8/13/1945. On the right of McKie is the radio she used to listen to shortwave radio messages broadcast from Radio Tokyo.
Date: January 23, 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Receives Award from Cardinal Spellman]

Photograph of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz receiving the 1946 Club of Champions Award of the Catholic Youth Organization of the Archdiocese of New York from Cardinal Francis Spellman. Chester W. Nimitz stands on the left in a dark Navy uniform with a white undershirt, a bow tie, six buttons on the front, four stripes and then a bigger band and a star on his sleeves. Cardinal Spellman is on the right pinning a medal to Adm. Nimitz in a long dark coat and clerical collar and glasses.
Date: January 21, 1947
Creator: United States. Navy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Chester W. Nimitz in Texas Regalia, #2]

Photograph of Chester W. Nimitz standing behind a table and microphone dressed in Texas regalia. He has on a white long-sleeved shirt, a bandana tied around his neck, a cowboy hat and a holster on his hip. Behind Nimitz is an American flag.
Date: 1947
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History