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- Academic Year 1967-1968, Unit 8: New Zealand
- This booklet is the third unit of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about countries in the Pacific. This unit discusses New Zealand and includes background information, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
- Academic Year 1967-1968, Unit 9: The Commonwealth of Australia
- This booklet is the fourth unit of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about countries and territories in the Pacific. This unit discusses Australia and includes background information, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
- Academic Year 1967-1968, Unit 10: U.S. Trusteeship Islands in the Pacific
- This booklet is the fifth unit of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about countries and territories in the Pacific. This unit discusses the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) and includes background information, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
- Academic Year 1967-1968, Unit 11: Other Island Dependencies and Trusteeships
- This booklet is the sixth unit of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about countries and territories in the Pacific. This unit discusses Guam, American Samoa, the Ryukyu Islands, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and New Guinea. It includes background information, review questions, and a list of suggested readings for further study.
- Current Study 11, Chapter 2. The Evolution of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
- This booklet is the second chapter of Current Study 11, a staff development course about the Cold War's impact on world affairs. This chapter discusses the development of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and includes background information, observations, review questions, a list of readings for further study, and three appendices.
- Interview with Brian Bainbridge, March 6, 1989
- Interview with Brian Bainbridge from Melbourne, Australia. In the interview, Bainbridge discusses his work as a consultant.
- Confederate Air Force: Southern Minnesota Wing
- Pamphlet discussing the Confederate Air Force organization and the many goals and restoration projects of the Southern Minnesota Wing. Several photos of Air Force members can be seen on the front cover, includign a photo of a Woman Airforce Service pilot in the bottom left corner, with the name "Betty" written beneath her.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 7, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing remaining with the Red Cross on Guam, stories from an indigenous woman about the Japanese occupation, going to a dance, talking with aviators, life on Guam, photos, and Red Cross staffing.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 16, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing celebrations of the end of hostilities between the US and Japan, talking with Marine veterans, throwing a party, recent correspondence, an uncertain future, and the view on Guam.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 21, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing a Life Magazine article on Guam, bonds and finances, the end of hostilities with Japan, a visit from an admiral, a friend trying to get in touch, withdrawal of Marines, recent work, indoor flooding, sewing panties from cloth maps, running a "bulletin board of the air," swimming, and her friend Phyllis. Typed on Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 27, 1945]
- 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.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 25, 1945?]
- Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing Christmas on Guam, running a Red Cross canteen, how she thinks of home, and an incident where someone pulled a gas alarm. Written on Burlington Hotel (Washington D. C.) stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 26, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing a backlog of mail, Christmas decorations on Guam, weather, problems with water and electricity, meeting someone from Jacksonville, changes in personnel on the island, and her typewriter. Written on American Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, February 16, 1946?]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her return to the United States from Guam. Written on Franciscan Hotel (San Francisco) stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 9, 1946]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes (probably to her mother) discussing recent correspondence, a Christmas package, money, letters from friends, getting leave to come home, seeking a transfer to China, picking up food around Guam, and flying with bomber crews. Typed on American Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 15, 1946]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing news from home, taxes, a visit with her friend Phyllis, Red Cross assignments across Asia, resignations, seeing a reef, getting a logbook, recent letters, and trying to decide of she should resign. Typed on Edwards Hotel (Jackson, MS) stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 26, 1946]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing preparations for her return trip to the United States from Guam.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 3, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent correspondence, traveling around Guam, mangoes, her friend Marion, living arrangements, mail, and flowers. Written on USMC stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 11, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing coffee, food, talking with a Marine pilot, needing a new pair of pumps and a bag, and lipstick. Written on Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 14, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing the opening of a new enlisted men's club, news from home and recent correspondence, flying, working a night shift at the Red Cross canteen, and Japanese army souvenirs. Written on Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 17, 1945?]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing being awoken to take over a midnight shift at the Red Cross canteen, typing reports, meeting a friend on Guam, events in China, a pay raise, Red Cross resignations, and getting a raft from some Marines. Written on Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 23, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing a new pair of pants, time management, swimming, dinner, running a Red Cross Canteen, and leaving Guam.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 29, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent letters and packages, working at her Red Cross canteen, a Japanese pistol, visiting the 21st Marine Regiment, her sleep schedule, and transiting visitors. Written and typed on American Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 2, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her friends Phyl and Buzz leaving Guam for Saipan, two Red Cross girls getting into a road accident in a Jeep, delivering food, washing clothes, and being invited to an indigenous person's wedding.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 3-4, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing typewriter ribbon, her friend Phyllis, dinner, chores, and a dance.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes October 20, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her frustration with the Red Cross, preparing to open a new club for enlisted men, getting transferred to Aganus, her work schedule, and friends. Typed on The Neil House (Columbus, OH) stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 27, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her night shift at a Red Cross Canteen, problems with coffee urns, recreating, her schedule, a lizard, news from her friends, opening a new club, and clothes. Typed on Neil House (Columbus, OH) stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 1, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing a letter from her father, B-29s, buildings and construction, food at an officer's club, recent correspondence, and the bank. Written and typed on American Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 10-11, 1945?]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing driving around Guam, two recent plane crashes, construction, correspondence, bringing coffee to a construction gang, visiting the Navy officers' club and headquarters, coworkers, and gifts.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 13-14, 1945]
- 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.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 22, 1945?]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her decision to resign from the Red Cross, coming home, and when she will write or call next. Typed and written on Edwards Hotel (Jackson) stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 25, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her friend Phyllis' travels, serving construction workers, opening a Army Air Force enlisted club, needing a toothbrush, going to a party and getting dinner, and news about her friend Marion. Typed on Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 28, 1945?]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent letters, gifts and packages, and life and the military situation on Guam.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, August 12, 1945]
- 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.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, December 8-10, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing a package, her schedule, flying in a B-26, remnant Japanese troops on Guam and safety on the island, getting Seabees to help her move things, doing laundry, meeting someone she went to grade school with, and food.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, December 21, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing recent correspondence, the difficulty of coming home for Christmas and trying to decide whether to try, and news about her friends Bobby and Marion. Written on Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, December 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing her father's passing.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, January 1-4, 1946]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing her father Fred's passing.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, July 11, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing taking her friend Phyl to develop some photos and visit with Marines, seeing a concert, letters and new from home, and pictures. Typed on the back of Hotel Lenox (Buffalo) stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, November 26, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing a recent letter, swimming and breakfast, flying a Beechcraft from Guam to Saipan, battlescars on the landscape, dinner, packages, and correspondence with friends. Typed on Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, October 11, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing work, pictures from occupied Japan, finding a florist/landscaper on Guam, a B-29 pilot who named his plane "City of Jacksonville," recreating, taxes, her dislike of how the Red Cross is managed and an overabundance of workers; the remainder is difficult to read. Typed on Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, September 4, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing receiving newspaper clippings, new furniture, things she would like sent to her, her parents' health, establishing a Red Cross Club, celebrating V-J Day, and future assignments. Typed on Red Cross stationary.
- [Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, September 18, 1945]
- Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing recent correspondence with friends, buying bonds, almost quitting the Red Cross, spending time with freed prisoners of war, work, giving her father power of attorney, her brother (?) John leaving the Navy, going to the movies, visiting Saipan, and supplies.
- Interview with Kristen Manson, 1986
- Interview with Kristen Manson, a foreign exchange student with the Rotary program from south Australia. In the interview, Manson discusses her involvement in the International Rotary Club, as well as her perspective of cultural differences and similarities between Australia and America.
- [Clipping: A Belated Salute to the Women of WWII]
- Newspaper clipping of a part of an article about female World War 2 veterans meeting at the Georgia World Congress Center.
- Intelligence Bulletin, Volume 3, Number 1, September 1944
- Bulletin made for the United States Army containing descriptions of U.S. methods of attack and defense against Japanese and German military weapons and soldiers.
- [Letter from Clayton B. Williams, April 19, 1988]
- Letter from Clayton B. Williams discussing an encounter he had with a former WASP before going on a cruise and asking if anyone had a list of individuals that came to a recent reunion so that he could get her address.
- [Clipping: Fly Girls]
- Newspaper clipping of the clues for a crossword puzzle about women in aviation.
- [Clipping: Fly Girls]
- Clues for words for a crossword puzzle and the key.
- [Clipping: "War In Europe Over! Germany Quits!"]
- Photocopy of a portion of The Shreveport Times front page and several articles for May 1945, including information about combat in Manila, the redeployment of 800 planes, the attack on Pearl Harbor, news of the end of World War II, and more are included.