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[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 2, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying from Shreveport to Love Field, applying for pursuit training, flying basic trainers, mechanical issues, and recent correspondence. Written on Delta Air Lines stationary.
Date: February 2, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 2, 1945?]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing sailing, exploring a town, getting her uniform pressed, transportation, her grandfather's health, and waiting to hear from the Defense Production Corporation.
Date: 1945-02-02?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 5, 1944]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent work ferrying aircraft. Written on Delta Air Lines stationary.
Date: February 5, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 12, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing her frustration with pursuit school, new socks, and some news about friends. Typed on 5th Ferrying Group stationary.
Date: February 12, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 13, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing being weathered-in, a visit to her unit from Jackie Cochran, new uniforms, civilian clothes, making WASPs part of the Army Air Corps, the possibility of foreign duty, and correspondence. Typed on Hotel Heidelberg (Jackson) stationary.
Date: February 13, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 16, 1946?]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her return to the United States from Guam. Written on Franciscan Hotel (San Francisco) stationary.
Date: 1946-02-16?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 20, 1944]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing check flights and getting her instrument rating at Army Air Force pursuit school. Typed on Friendly Hotels stationary.
Date: February 20, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 21, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing orders to ferry a plane from Colorado Springs, getting a train there, and recent correspondence. Written on Braniff Airways stationary.
Date: February 21, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 22, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing meeting a private from Jacksonville, flying, and seeing Pike's Peak. Written on Texas Zephyr stationary.
Date: February 22, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 23, 1944?]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes written on Kemp Hotel (Wichita Falls) stationary, discussing ferrying an aircraft.
Date: 1944-02-23?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 23, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, probably to her parents, discussing catching a ride in a C-47 from Sacramento to Fort Worth, travelling to Houston by bus, how her friends are doing, and plans for future travel. Typed on Edwards Hotel (Jackson) stationary.
Date: February 23, 1945
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 24, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent travels, issues with government forms, and differences between Sweetwater and Houston. Typed on Blue Bonnet Hotel (Sweetwater) stationary.
Date: February 24, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 25-27, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent correspondence, uniform items, the future of the WASP program, being grounded by bad weather, and delivering a P-51. Typed on Kemp Hotel (Wichita Falls) stationary.
Date: 1944-02-25/1944-02-27
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 28, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing waiting for good weather in Shreveport, getting dinner, flying in bad weather and delivering a plane to Jackson MS, and waiting for a return flight.
Date: February 28, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 1942]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing getting transportation without her car, being accepted into the Women's Flying Training Detachment, pay, and her schedule.
Date: February 1943
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

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Family, February 28, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her family discussing liberty, students and training courses, the barracks, clothing, her pay status, and new cadets. Written on Blue Bonnet Hotel (Sweetwater) stationary.
Date: February 28, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[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 to Fred G. Yerkes, February 18, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, probably to her father, discussing her mother, not being able to see her friend Margaret Metz, finances, having to use Link Trainers, her instructors, check flights in large aircraft, flying in bad weather, the kinds of people becoming pilots, and uniforms. Typed on 5th Ferrying Group stationary.
Date: February 18, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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