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[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #1] (open access)

[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #1]

50th Women Airforce Service Pilot Anniversary 1943-1993 Sweetwater, Texas envelope with a fifty-cent U.S. Air Mail stamp featuring Harriet Quimby the Pioneer Pilot. It shows a cancellation stamp from Avenger Field station on May 22, 1993, Sweetwater, Texas 79556.
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #2] (open access)

[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #2]

50th Women Airforce Service Pilot Anniversary 1943-1993 Sweetwater, Texas envelope with a twenty-nin-cent U.S. Air Mail stamp featuring "Corregidor Falls to Japanese." It shows a cancellation stand from Avenger Field station on May 22, 1993, Sweetwater, Texas 79556.
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #4] (open access)

[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #4]

50th Women Airforce Service Pilot Anniversary 1943-1993 Sweetwater, Texas envelope with a fifty-cent U.S. Air Mail stamp featuring Harriet Quimby the Pioneer Pilot. It shows a cancellation stamp from Avenger Field station on May 22, 1993, Sweetwater, Texas 79556.
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #5] (open access)

[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #5]

50th Women Airforce Service Pilot Anniversary 1943-1993 Sweetwater, Texas envelope with a twenty-nine-cent U.S. Air Mail stamp that features "Japanese invades Aleutian islands." It shows a cancellation stamp from Avenger Field station on May 22, 1993, Sweetwater, Texas 79556.
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
73rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 120 (open access)

73rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 120

Texas House Concurrent Resolution bill signed by Governor Ann Richards commending the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II for their service to their country on the occasion of their 50th anniversary.
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Action Without Meeting Motions (open access)

Action Without Meeting Motions

Document listing the three motions made during the WASP Board of Directors meeting held in Nashville, TN on March 25, 2006.
Date: May 10, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Administrative Practices: Authorized Abbreviations (open access)

Administrative Practices: Authorized Abbreviations

List of approved military abbreviations for use by United States Air Force personnel and administrative staff.
Date: May 8, 1953
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum #2] (open access)

[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum #2]

Orders for WASP Gayle D. Ewing to ferry an AT-6 aircraft from Dallas, Texas to Spence Field Air Force base in Moultrie, Georgia.
Date: May 29, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Albany (V-9) Sectional Aeronautical Chart

Aeronautical map of Albany, New York and its surrounding region, showing cities, topographical features, radio frequency ranges and other various aeronautical symbols for flight training and navigation. Scale 1:500,000.
Date: May 6, 1943
Creator: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Avenger Field Renaming Ceremony Speech by Ann Atkeison] (open access)

[Avenger Field Renaming Ceremony Speech by Ann Atkeison]

Speech given by Ann Atkeison honoring the history of Avenger Field.
Date: May 20, 1989
Creator: Atkeison, Ann
Object Type: Script
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Avenger, Volume 1, Issue 1, May 11, 1943 (open access)

The Avenger, Volume 1, Issue 1, May 11, 1943

Copy of the first issue of The Avenger, the newspaper made for WASP in Avenger field. Articles about Jacqueline Cochran, a letter from a German spy to the Gestapo, Avenger Field, and more are included.
Date: May 11, 1943
Creator: Bowles, Mary A.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Avenger, Volume 1, Number 1, May 11, 1943 (open access)

The Avenger, Volume 1, Number 1, May 11, 1943

First issue of The Avenger, a newsletter by the WASPs at Avenger Field featuring news, cartoons, essays, and photos.
Date: May 11, 1943
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Avenger, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2006 (open access)

The Avenger, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2006

Newsletter of the National WASP WWII Museum including news, events, and other information of interest to the museum's membership.
Date: May 2006
Creator: National WASP WWII Museum
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Avenger, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2006 (open access)

The Avenger, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2006

Newsletter of the National WASP WWII Museum including news, events, and other information of interest to the museum's membership.
Date: May 2006
Creator: National WASP World War II Museum
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Banquet in Hangar]

Photograph of people sitting at tables at a banquet inside a hangar with two unidentified women standing at a podium in the front next to a WWII-era plane and a U.S. flag.
Date: May 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Charlyne Creger: An Oral History (open access)

Charlyne Creger: An Oral History

Transcript of and oral history interview of Charlyne Creger conducted by interviewer, Dawn Letson. They discuss Creger's family history, her life growing up in Oklahoma, and her life and career after entering and graduating the Women Airforce Service Pilots. An index of subjects discussed is listed at the end of the interview.
Date: May 26, 1988
Creator: Letson, Dawn & Creger, Charlyne
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Charlyne Creger and U.S. Flag]

Photograph of Charlyne Creger wearing her WASP uniform standing next to a U.S. flag in front of a white wall.
Date: May 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Charlyne Creger Holding Newborn]

Photograph of Charlyne Creger wearing what appears to be a white lab coat sitting in a rocking chair holding a newborn baby.
Date: May 1976
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Charlyne Creger with American Flag]

Photograph of Charlyne Creger wearing her WASP uniform standing next to a U.S. flag in front of a white wall.
Date: May 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Charlyne Creger with Newborn Baby]

Photograph of Charlyne Creger wearing what appears to be a white lab coat sitting in a rocking chair holding a newborn baby.
Date: May 1976
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Charlyne Creger with U.S. Flag]

Photograph of Charlyne Creger wearing her WASP uniform standing next to a U.S. flag in front of a white wall.
Date: May 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Check Paid to E. L. Bauknight, May 23, 1943] (open access)

[Check Paid to E. L. Bauknight, May 23, 1943]

Check for $27.25 paid to E. L. Bauknight by the Plosser-Prince Air Academy in Sweetwater, Texas for a witness expense.
Date: May 23, 1943
Creator: Plosser-Prince Air Academy
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Check Paid to Irby & Dineen, May 24, 1943] (open access)

[Check Paid to Irby & Dineen, May 24, 1943]

Check for $1,972.80 paid to Irby & Dineen by the Plosser-Prince Air Academy in Sweetwater, Texas for a reporting case at Abilene, Texas.
Date: May 24, 1943
Creator: Plosser-Prince Air Academy
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Check Paid to J. M. Wagstaff, May 27, 1943] (open access)

[Check Paid to J. M. Wagstaff, May 27, 1943]

Check for $250 paid to J. M. Wagstaff by the Plosser-Prince Air Academy in Sweetwater, Texas for expenses on trial at Abilene, Texas.
Date: May 27, 1943
Creator: Plosser-Prince Air Academy
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History