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International Forest of Friendship, 25th Celebration, 2001

Supplementary publication outlining events and information for the 25th International Forest of Friendship celebration, which memorializes contributors to aviation and aerospace with engraved plaques in the forest. It includes portraits and biographical sketches for the 40 people to be honored in 2001.

Date: June 14, 2001

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Postcard from Doris Tanner to Rigdon Edwards, September 7, 1989]

Letter from Doris Tanner to Rigdon Edwards discussing changes that should be made to the Fifinella monument. The front is a picture of the Haywood County Courthouse in Brownsville, Tennessee.

Date: September 7, 1989

Creator: Tanner, Doris Brinker

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Help, at Last]

Newspaper clipping with an article about Senate's decision to finally grant veteran benefits to the WASP.

Date: October 22, 1977

Creator: Grehl, Michael

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "Senate Helps WASPS"]

Newspaper clipping with an article about veteran benefits being granted to former WASP.

Date: October 21, 1977

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "Ex-WASPs Ask Veterans' Benefits"]

Newspaper clipping with an article about the WASP demanding veteran benefits and reasons why their demands were opposed.

Date: May 26, 1977

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "A WASP Goes to Washington"]

Newspaper clipping with an article about Doris Tanner and her meetings with congressional representatives to discuss WASP receiving veteran status.

Date: March 29, 1977

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: About Town]

Newspaper clipping with an article about a phone call Ouida Jewell got from someone about a news story about the WASP seeking veteran benefits from the government, her experience in the WASP program, and a story about Casey Jones.

Date: October 29, 1976

Creator: Jewell, Ouida

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: WASP Hunt Centers on Some Recognition]

Newspaper clipping with an article about the WASP, their contribution to the war effort, their lack of veterans' benefits, and their reunions.

Date: October 20, 1976

Creator: Kueck, Bruce

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "War Remembered by Women Pilots"]

Newspaper clipping with an article about World War 2 and the WASP.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Mrs. Julie McLeod to Mr. and Mrs. Carswell - December 31, 1969]

A letter written to Mr. and Mrs. Carswell [T. N. Carswell and Byrdie Carswell] from Mrs. Julie McLeod, Memphis, Tennessee, dated December 31, 1969. McLeod expresses her appreciation for the lovely letter and her hope that Mrs. Carswell is better. She requests that Carswell please find any small memento that they both have had since the time she has known him and to mail it to her. She discusses her desire to move back to Texas advising that she has applied for a transfer after having worked … more

Date: December 31, 1969

Creator: McLeod, Julie

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Wallace E. Johnson to Truett Latimer, November 20, 1962]

Letter from Wallace E. Johnson to Truett Latimer thanking him for his previous letter in which he enclosed the Holiday Inns of America personal history record. He also talks about Mr. Latimer's record and application.

Date: November 20, 1962

Creator: Johnson, Wallace E.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Wallace E. Johnson to Truett Latimer, October 18, 1962]

Letter from Wallace E. Johnson to Truett Latimer; He encloses an application for Mr. Latimer to fill and return. He also informs him that his (Mr. Latimer) letter to Gerald Martin has been referred to the writer.

Date: October 18, 1962

Creator: Johnson, Wallace E.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Robert G. Lee to T. N. Carswell - May 25, 1949]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from Robert G. Lee, President, The Southern Baptist Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, dated May 25, 1949. Lee expresses his appreciation for the letter from Carswell regarding the Buchanan report and explains the suggestion by Buchanan as being just something for us to "chew on" advising that the Convention was right in not doing any such thing.

Date: May 25, 1949

Creator: Lee, Robert G.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Cpt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, August 27, 1945]

Letter from Captain Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon about personnel being discharged and other things that are happening within the military.

Date: August 27, 1945

Creator: Drew, Edward Allen

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 23, 1944]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing Christmas, correspondence, the end of the WASP, and trying to get transportation. Written on Red Cross stationary.

Date: December 23, 1944

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, December 23, 1944]

Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing trying to get a flight from Memphis to New York. The postcard is from the Memphis Municipal Airport's Red Cross Canteen and features two images of servicemen recreating.

Date: December 23, 1944

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, November 17, 1944]

Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to her parents, discussing a flight from Memphis to Newark via Atlanta and her choice to ferry a P-40 or P-63. The postcard is from the Memphis Municipal Airport Red Cross Canteen and features two photos of servicemen recreating.

Date: November 17, 1944

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Yerkes, November 16, 1944]

Postcard from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents. The postcard is from the American Red Cross and features two photos of the Red Cross Canteen in Memphis, with several men and at least one woman in uniform enjoying drinks and billiards.

Date: November 16, 1944

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 20, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing ferrying aircraft and trouble with weather, flying between Dallas, Wichita, Pampa, and Walnut Ridge, her friends, and food. Written on Hotel Chisca (Memphis) starionary.

Date: January 20, 1944

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 5, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing her morning and taking a train to Memphis. Written on 4th Ferrying Group Officers Club stationary.

Date: January 5, 1944

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 26, 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing Christmas gifts, traveling by train, meeting a Russian fur trapper, recent correspondence, the WASP program and pay. Typed on Hotel John Marshal (Richmond) stationary.

Date: 1943-12-26?

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from James W. Bodley to T. N. Carswell - September 1, 1942]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from James W. Bodley, Department Commander, Memphis, Tennesse, dated September 1, 1942. Announcement from the Department of Tennessee presenting Roane Waring as candidate for National Commander of the American Legion.

Date: September 1, 1942

Creator: Bodley, James W.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Edward J. Meeman - February 26, 1942]

A letter addressed to Mr. Edward J. Meeman, Editor, The Press Scimitar, Memphis, Tennessee, from T. N. Carswell, dated February 26, 1942. Carswell requests a copy of the editorial written by Meeman, printed by The Press Scimitar on December 22, 1941, which was written in reply to the letter received by Meeman from Carswell requesting an answer to the question "What is Americanism?"

Date: February 26, 1942

Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Americanism

A newspaper clipping from page 8 of the Monday, December 22, 1941 edition of the Memphis Press-Scimitar (Memphis, Tennessee) featering an article on Americanism, written by Edward J. Meeman, Editor. Meeman answers the question "What is Americanism" as asked by T. N. Carswell, For the Committee, Parramore Post No. 57 American Legion, Abilene, Texas.

Date: December 22, 1941

Creator: Meeman, Edward J.

Item Type: Text

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

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International Forest of Friendship, 25th Celebration, 2001

[Postcard from Doris Tanner to Rigdon Edwards, September 7, 1989]

[Clipping: Help, at Last]

[Clipping: "Senate Helps WASPS"]

[Clipping: "Ex-WASPs Ask Veterans' Benefits"]

[Clipping: "A WASP Goes to Washington"]

[Clipping: About Town]

[Clipping: WASP Hunt Centers on Some Recognition]

[Clipping: "War Remembered by Women Pilots"]

[Letter from Mrs. Julie McLeod to Mr. and Mrs. Carswell - December 31, 1969]

[Letter from Wallace E. Johnson to Truett Latimer, November 20, 1962]

[Letter from Wallace E. Johnson to Truett Latimer, October 18, 1962]

[Letter from Robert G. Lee to T. N. Carswell - May 25, 1949]

[Letter from Cpt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, August 27, 1945]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 23, 1944]

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, December 23, 1944]

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, November 17, 1944]

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Yerkes, November 16, 1944]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 20, 1944]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 5, 1944]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 26, 1943?]

[Letter from James W. Bodley to T. N. Carswell - September 1, 1942]

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Edward J. Meeman - February 26, 1942]

Americanism