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[Name Tag for Lyda M. Dunham 43-W-4] (open access)

[Name Tag for Lyda M. Dunham 43-W-4]

Name tag for WASP trainee Lyda M. Dunham.
Date: 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Helen Duffy]

Photograph of Helen Duffy, one of the instructors in the Women Airforce Service Program (WASP), standing outside. She is wearing a flight suit and is visible from the waist up. The back of the photograph is stamped "D. Deaton from D. Strother" and "Flying Training Command Photo."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Planes Flying Over Ellington Field]

Photograph of three planes flying over a monument at Ellington Field in Texas. The back of the photograph contains the stamp of the Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: The WASPS] (open access)

[Clipping: The WASPS]

Photocopied magazine clipping about the squadron that led to the use of women in military aviation and life as a WASP.
Date: January 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: WASPs' role in stinging Axis noted] (open access)

[Clipping: WASPs' role in stinging Axis noted]

Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP involvement in WWII, with a photograph of several WASP pilots walking under the wing of a plane. There is a two-panel political cartoon on the back of the clipping.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
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
[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Joe S. Lattimore, March 1, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Joe S. Lattimore, March 1, 1945]

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Joe S. Lattimore at Baylor University College of Medicine, on March 1, 1945, lamenting the number of hunting seasons he's missed. He says he has a friend who's uncle owns a pasture they can rent out when they get back from the war, and asks Lattimore to go with him.
Date: March 1, 1945
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memo on Rice Hotel Note Paper] (open access)

[Memo on Rice Hotel Note Paper]

Memo written on Rice Hotel note paper that says: 1. They had our estimated gallonage consumption 130,000 in October from Washington representative. 2. Borrow from Sweetwater Bank. 3. Cal-Tex prices - Going to send us prices. 4. Brown, Campbell, Davis, Bell, Hart.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with John J. Clemens, May 13, 2003

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with John J. Clemens. The interview includes Clemens' personal experiences about childhood and early adulthood in Houston, Texas, World War II-era service in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard USS Wren in the Pacific Theater, and piloting a ship into Tokyo Bay immediately following the Japanese surrender. Clemens speaks about convoy missions across the Atlantic Ocean, the January 4, 1944 sinking of the USS Turner while moored in New York Harbor and the court of inquiry regarding the sinking, actions in the Aleutian Islands, Attu, Okinawa, and Philippine campaigns and anti-kamikaze warfare while aboard the USS Wren, and the effects that Allied bombing had on Tokyo.
Date: May 13, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Clemens, John J., 1921-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from I.H. to Cecile Kempner, August 5, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from I.H. to Cecile Kempner, August 5, 1945]

Letter to Cecile from her father about family matters, going to Houston, the war, and investment advice.
Date: August 5, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, December 21, 1947] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. to Cecile Kempner, December 21, 1947]

Letter to Cecile from her father about Congress, government, and a Christmas card from 1938.
Date: December 21, 1947
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Darion to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Darion to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Darion to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Patrick to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Patrick to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Patrick to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jaryan to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Jaryan to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Jaryan to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jaylynn Gutirrez to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Jaylynn Gutirrez to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Jaylynn Gutirrez to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: Gutirrez, Jaylynn
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ty'lin to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Ty'lin to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Ty'lin to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Zamorien to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Zamorien to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Zamorien to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Aiden to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Aiden to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Aiden to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jadin to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Jadin to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Jadin to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Janayla to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Janayla to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Janayla to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Kenneth Green to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Kenneth Green to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student,Kenneth Green to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: Green, Kenneth
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jaylyn to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Jaylyn to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Jaylyn to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Morgan Johnson to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Morgan Johnson to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Morgan Johnson to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: Johnson, Morgan
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mark to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015] (open access)

[Letter from Mark to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, September 22, 2015]

Letter written by a student, Mark to the WASPs with a hand-drawn picture and a thank-you message.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History