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Colorado River and Tributaries, Texas. Profiles Colorado River.

Description: Map of the Colorado River and its tributaries, showing spillways, dams, proposed sites for dams, average bank lines, elevations above mean sea level datum (in feet), and U.S. Geological Survey river flow gauges (active and inactive). The map also includes highways and major towns located near the river banks. Scale varies.
Date: October 1944
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas: Brackettville Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Brackettville, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, ranches, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Hackberry Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Hackberry, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads and highways, ranches, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 40 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Nueces River and Tributaries, Texas. Profiles of Nueces River.

Description: Map of the Nueces River and its tributaries, showing spillways, dams, proposed sites for dams, average bank lines, elevations above mean sea level datum (in feet), and U.S. Geological Survey river flow gauges. The map also includes highways and major towns located near the river banks. Scale varies.
Date: May 1944
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Barksdale Quadrangle: Texas, 1:62,500

Description: Topographic quadrangle map covering areas of Edwards, Kinney, Uvalde and Real counties, near Camp Wood, Texas. Relief shown by contours (interval 40 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Eleanor McLernon Brown]

Description: Photograph of WASP Eleanor Brown seen from the chest up in uniform with WASP pins and wings attached. Two handwritten notes can be seen on the back of the photo. The first, in pencil, reads, "Eleanor McLernon (Brown) 1944". The second, in pen ink, reads, "Return to: Eleanor McLernon Brown 2201 N. DeLeon, Vicotria, Tx 77901 Wimsa Reg. 137050".
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Press Release: Address by General H.H. Arnold, and Statement from Jacqueline Cochran]

Description: War Department press release quoting the speech General Arnold gave to the final graduating class of Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II and a statement made by Jacqueline Cochran on the WASP's accomplishments. The pages are torn away at the edges in several places, most noticeably in the bottom left corner of the first page.
Date: December 7, 1944
Creator: Arnold, Henry Harley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Eleanor Brown with Plane]

Description: Photograph of Eleanor Brown in a flight suit and cap, carrying a parachute harness over her shoulder and leaning against a plane. A handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "Micky McLernon Brown 2201 N. Deleon Victoria, Tx". "1944" is written in pencil on the top back of the photo.
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping photocopy: WASP Militarization Favored by Stimson]

Description: Photocopy of a newspaper clipping of articles from the New York Times about the U.S.'s involvement in World War II, including an article about an initiative to give WASP members full military benefits. Among the articles are several small advertisements, some with illustrations. At the top of the photocopy is handwritten text identifying the newspaper and its publishing date.
Date: May 5, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Eleanor Brown in Uniform]

Description: Photograph pasted to thick paper board of WASP Eleanor brown in uniform and posed looking off camera. WASP and air force pins can be seen on her breast and lapels. A note in pen written on the back of the paper board reads, "Mickey, Eleanor McLernon (Brown) 1944".
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASP Group in Uniform]

Description: Photograph of eleven WASP in uniform posed in in two rows on a set of stone steps outside a building. Several notes are written on the back of the photo, including a list naming the group members. First note reads in faded pencil at the top, "Eleanor M. Brown 2201 N. DeLeon", followed by a typed address label for Robert S. Brown. The second note reads, "Back Row L-R, Ann Baron, Elizabeth Stavrum, Elizabeth (Betty) Pettit, Eleanor M. McLernon, Margaret Shaffer, Marry Ann Walker". The note beside… more
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[44-W4 Time Schedule]

Description: Memo from Group Commander E. A. Parker to Flight Commanders discussing the schedule for the 44-W4 class of Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas.
Date: March 7, 1944
Creator: Parker, E. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Photograph of Eleven WASP and Three Men]

Description: Photograph of eleven members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and three men standing and sitting in front of a building. The typewritten label attached to the photograph's bottom edge repeats the information written on the back of the photograph.
Date: May 6, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Copies of Personnel Order 71 and 79]

Description: Copies of Army Air Force Personnel orders 71 and 79 designating flight officer Paul A. Hill as a service pilot and re-rating a list of several Air Force Second Lieutenants as pilots and service pilots.
Date: {1944-03-23,1944-11-09}
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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