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[Four Biplanes Flying]

Description: Photograph of four Boeing biplanes, including the B-1y Flying Fortress and the PT-17 Primary Trainer, flying in the sky above the Boeing plants in Whichita, Kansas with clouds in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Boeing Airplane Company
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Jacqueline Cochran's Typed Daily Schedule: December 1969 to December 1973]

Description: Text of Jacqueline Cochran's typed daily schedule from December 21, 1969, to December 15, 1973, including golf tournaments, doctor appointments, hair appointments, Arthritis Foundation committee meetings, dinner meetings, budget meetings, and board meetings. Entries include day of week, time, and location. They also include personal handwritten notes on some entries.
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Wichita

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Wichita, Kansas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Reliefs shown by contours, spot heights, and colors, with heights in meters and includes reliability diagram, index to adjoining sheets, index to boundaries, and graded tints in meters and feet. Scale 1:1,000,000
Date: 1955
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, March 4, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent correspondence, wearing Army Air Corps insignia, the North American A-36, ferrying an aircraft, and other recent work. Written on Washington Yankee (Shreveport, LA) stationary.
Date: March 4, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Aircraft Delivery Orders #4]

Description: Orders for WASP Gayle D. Ewing to ferry a PT-13D aircraft from Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas, to an Air Force base in Dos Palos, California.
Date: February 18, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Memorandum Receipt #2]

Description: Army delivery receipt certifying that WASP Gayle D. Ewing completed her ferry pilot assignment and delivered a PT-13 D model aircraft to be installed with a radio and bombsight equipment.
Date: February 18, 1944
Creator: Army Air Forces War Department
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Aircraft Delivery Orders #3]

Description: Orders for an Air Force pilot and two WASP to ferry planes from the Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita, Kansas to San Angelo, Texas and Fort Dix, New Jersey.
Date: February 9, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Memorandum Receipt #3]

Description: Army delivery receipt certifying that a UC-45 model aircraft was delivered to Fort Dix, New Jersey to be installed with radio and bomsight equipment.
Date: February 9, 1944
Creator: Army Air Forces War Department
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Memorandum Receipt #4]

Description: Army delivery receipt certifying that WASP Gayle D. Ewing ferried a PT-13 D model aircraft to an air base in Fort Dix, New Jersey to be installed with a radio and bombsight equipment.
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: Army Air Forces War Department
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Aircraft Delivery Order #6]

Description: Orders for several Air Force Pilots and WASP to ferry aircraft from Wichita Kansas to air bases in various U.S. cities.
Date: January 28, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 26, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes (probably to her father) discussing being grounded due to weather, a letter from the recipient and bonds, cigarettes, mail, finances, flying a new plane out of Long Beach, Army regulations, and her friends Bobby and Marion. Written on Friendly Hotels stationary.
Date: January 26, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 8, 1944]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes written on Hutson Hotels stationary, discussing flying a Cessna to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, her current layover in Amarillo and pending trip back to Wichita. In postcript, she asks the recipient to send a friend a fruit box.
Date: January 8, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 31, 1943]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing traveling to Wichita, being grounded by a snowstorm, picking up Cessnas for delivery, trying to find a Parker 51 pen, food, and recent correspondence. Written on 5th Ferrying Group stationary.
Date: December 31, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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