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[Clipping: They just wanted to fly]

Newspaper clippings of an article about WASP members, including Grace Birge Mayfield, Mary Macabe, Kristine Lent, Alice Riff, Ann Oliver, Ann Criswell Adden, Verda Mae Jennings Lowe, Betty Haas Pfister, Florene Miller, Millicent Young, and Barbara Flemming Foss. The article discusses the personal experiences of the women serving in WWII. On the back of the clippings, there is an advertisement for a drapery shop and an article on catalog ordering.

Date: November 6, 1988

Creator: Magid, Ken

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Photograph of James B. Kite]

Photograph of James B. Kite posing in a suit and tie.

Date: May 1942

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Clipping: Department of Colorado American Legion Seeks National OK for WASP]

Newspaper clipping of an article about a resolution passed by the American Legion's Department of Colorado in support of the WASP. The back of the clipping includes letters to the editor and a portion of an editorial about the National Research Council's report about problems with the VA hospital system.

Date: 1977?

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with Paul E. Papish, January 30, 1989

Interview with Paul E. Papish, a Navy WWII veteran and POW from Denver, Colorado, who survived the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30). Papish discusses joining the Navy in 1939 and training, assignment to the Houston and operations in the Pacific, the start of war and initial engagements, the Battle of the Java Sea, getting sunk at Sundra Strait, surviving on a raft and reaching shore on Java, capture, initial internment, transfer to and experiences in Bicycle Camp in Batavia, transfer to Chang… more

Date: January 30, 1989

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Papish, Paul E.

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Oral History Program