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[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 27, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing the recipient's letters, the weather, her assignment by the Red Cross to work with the 314th Bomb Wing on Guam, transfers, boots, and her friend Billy Ball. Typed on Sheraton Hotel stationary.
Date: August 27, 1945
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, August 12, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing setting up and throwing an elaborate Red Cross party for Marines, Japanese overtures for a ceasefire, an indigenous woman with a laundry machine, mud, lack of hot water, correspondence, buying soap, and mail. Typed on Edwards Hotel (Jackson, MS) stationary.
Date: August 12, 1945
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 13-14, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her friend Phyl, exploring a B-29, a leaky warehouse, delivering food, trying to get disinfectant, being put in charge of Red Cross warehouse operations for the day, and low morale among troops trying to get home with the end of the war.
Date: 1945-09-13/1945-09-14
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Soldiers on the Gangway to a Ship]

Description: Photograph of soldiers boarding a ship through the gangway taken from below. The support scaffolding is in full view and well as a platform holding large bags being suspended from the rail of the gangway. The soldiers boarding the ship are in full uniform and hauling large bags and bayonets.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Soldiers With Large Packs and Bayonets]

Description: Photograph of soldiers walking up a ramp with large packs and bayonets thrown over their shoulders. The men are wearing long-sleeved uniforms with utility belts and side caps. Behind the soldiers the roof and partial facade of a building can be seen.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Soldiers Offloading Ship]

Description: Photograph of many soldiers standing around in long sleeved shirts, utility belts, brimmed hats, leather boots and crossbody bags. At their feet are large dark bags with white ties littering the ground. On the right is a large ship with more soldiers on it, they are rolling more of the dark bags down to the ground using a net connected to the ground.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Negative of a Solider on a Galloping Horse]

Description: Negative of a solider in a collared uniform, a side cap and sunglasses riding horseback. The horse is dark in color and is galloping down a dirt path. In the background there are rows of tress and off to the right is a small building with a straw roof.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Negative of Two Soldiers on Horseback]

Description: Negative of two soldiers' side by side on horseback in tall grass. The one on the right is in a long-sleeved collared uniform on a dark horse with a white streak on its muzzle. The solider on the left is also in a long-sleeved collared uniform, a side cap and sunglasses. His horse is dark in color.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Negative of a Solider on Back of Horse]

Description: Negative of a solider riding down a dirt path on a dark mare named Smokey. The soldier is wearing a long-sleeved collared uniform, a belt, a cap and sunglasses. The path he is on is lined with trees and the straw roof of a building can be seen on the right.
Date: 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Solider on Back of Horse]

Description: Photograph of solider riding down a dirt path on a dark mare named Smokey. The soldier is wearing a long-sleeved collared uniform, a belt, a cap and sunglasses. The path he is on is lined with trees and the straw roof of a building can be seen on the right.
Date: 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Soldiers Offloading Horses]

Description: Photograph of soldiers from the US Army's 124th Cavalry Regiment in long-sleeved uniforms and helmets offloading horses. On the left is a large ship, and two soldiers standing with their backs to the camera. On the right soldiers lead two dark horses away from the ship.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Boy Stands With Horse and Calf]

Description: Photograph of a young man in a white collared shirt and shorts holding the lead of a dark horse. Next to the horse is a small calf. Both the horse and calf are extremely skinny with every rib showing. Behind the horse are a few barrels, trees and a building with a straw roof.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Marine Public Relations Shelter in Guam]

Description: Photograph of three shirtless Marines standing in front of a small shelter with a sign reading "Public Relations" attached to it. Two men sit inside the small shelter behind the three men.
Date: August 4, 1944
Creator: United States. Marine Corps.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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