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[Clipping: Female WWII Pilot Relives Service at Stewart]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about former WASP member Helen Wyatt Snapp's experience serving in WWII, especially while she was stationed at Fort Stewart in Georgia. The article includes a photograph of Snapp in her old age, in a helicopter. The clipping includes other articles about local and world news, as well as advertisements.
Date: March 8, 2001
Creator: Dezern, Melinda
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: 'Like a homesick angel']

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about the celebration of the 50th WASP Anniversary Reunion and some experiences from former WASPs. Part of another article about Governor Ann Richards attending the reunion is also included.
Date: May 23, 1993
Creator: Fulton, Loretta
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Special Orders Number 80, Extract 2]

Description: Special orders extract reassigning several Women Airforce Service Pilots to new stations and agreeing to pay them by the mile flown or to reimburse them for expenses incurred while traveling.
Date: September 16, 1944
Creator: Pinkston, Sid C. & Pinkston, Sid C.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

My Life of Eighty Years

Description: Bound autobiographical manuscript written by Mary Stanton outlining her early life in Georgia, her education, and working as a teacher and administrator in El Paso before retiring in 1925. She also briefly discusses travel and personal thoughts about teaching, with an addendum regarding the early organization of the El Paso Public Library.
Date: July 25, 1943
Creator: Stanton, Mary I.
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Clipping: Spain Uncensored]

Description: Newspaper clipping describing the Nazi occupation of Spanish territory. On the back of this newspaper article is an article that has been cut in half that reads, "Rusco Helps to Stock the Nation's Larder"
Date: February 22, 1943
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, February 6, 1943?]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her father discussing Instruments Flight Instructor School classes, visiting with friends, dinner with a Lt. Hawthorne, Phil Kafka's Army commission, medical examinations, pay and leave permits, and a friendly lunchlady. On the back is an image of the IFIS insignia.
Date: 1943-02-06?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 1943?]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing money, transferring bank accounts from Atlanta to Sweetwater, passing a check flight, staying in sickbay, news from home, a student pilot's poetry, practicing stalls, sending mail, and nurses.
Date: 1943-02~
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Postcard of Chattahoochee River]

Description: Postcard of a river surrounded with trees, with text that says "Scene on the Chattahoochee River, Columbus, Georgia." A handwritten note addressed to Helen Aten says "Howdy: Having a very nice time. Tell John people are husking corn down here. And he shouldn't work to hard to get his done till I get back. Githa."
Date: January 16, 1943
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[William S. Blackshear - Atlanta Ga.]

Description: (back of photo) W.S.B. in Atlanta, Ga. Rainy. Just put Alf on bus to Camp Campbell so felt quite sad and lonely 1943. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library. Business signs in the background for the Paramount Theatre, showing "Phantom Lady" and the Royal Palm Dancing club.
Date: 1943
Partner: Palestine Public Library
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