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Avenger Field Yearbook, Class 44-W-5

Book documenting the 44-W-5 class of women pilots at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. It includes graduating students, instructors, and other information about the class and the program.

Date: December 7, 1943

Creator: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.)

Item Type: Book

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Christmas Decorations in the 82d Medical Battalion Mess Hall]

Photograph of the 82d Medical Battalion's mess hall at Camp Barkeley, Texas. Benches and covered tables are arranged in a horseshoe pattern, leaving an open section of floor. The tables are set with plates and cups. Fir branches and tinsel adorn the surrounding windows.

Date: December 25, 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Christmas Dinner in the 82nd Medical Battalion's Headquarters]

Photograph of members of the 82nd Medical Battalion wearing formal uniforms and sitting at long tables for a Christmas dinner. Streamers and a bell hang from the ceiling, mistletoe hang from the windows, and Christmas tree cutouts hang over the serving area.

Date: December 25, 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Einsiedel Wedding Photo]

Photograph of Ray and Ginny Einsiedel on their wedding day. He wears his military uniform, and she wears flowers on her jacket.

Date: December 12, 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Hoffman at Station Hospital]

Photograph of Capt. Carl G. Hoffman, with a cigarette in one hand, leaning on the porch railing of the station hospital at Camp Barkeley. A handwritten note on the photo reads: "Carl G. Hoffman, Capt. MC. Station Hospital C.B.T. Dec '43".

Date: December 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 2, 1943?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent work ferrying aircraft. There is significant bleedthrough from the ink, making it difficult to read.

Date: 1943-12-02?

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 5, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying orders, Christmas shopping, her car, rations and bonds, rumors about the WASPs being merged into the Army Air Force, her flight hours, Christmas leave, and talks from a safety officer about recent accidents. Typed on Santa Rita Hotel (Tucson) stationary.

Date: December 5, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 8, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing ferrying aircraft with bad weather and mechanical problems, and doing errands. Written on Friendly Hotels stationary.

Date: December 8, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 15, 1943?]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing delivering an aircraft to Washington D.C., traveling to Wilmington and Philadelphia, and mentions that she will be returning to Dallas.

Date: 1943-12-15?

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 20, 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes written on Aitchison Topeka & Santa Fe stationary, discussing her trip to Wichita, visits with people in Dallas and Atlanta, traveling to Richmond, and her anxiety about having to fly over New York City.

Date: 1943-12-20?

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 23, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying with bad weather and electrical problems, hand-cranking her landing gear, food, traveling, and Christmas.

Date: December 23, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 24, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying over New York City and Philadelphia, a phone call, seeing a performance of Othello, and returning to Dallas. Written on Hotel Peabody (Memphis) stationary.

Date: December 24, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 26, 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing Christmas gifts, traveling by train, meeting a Russian fur trapper, recent correspondence, the WASP program and pay. Typed on Hotel John Marshal (Richmond) stationary.

Date: 1943-12-26?

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 29, 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her lack of good stationary, news from friends, the bad weather, trying and failing to teach a poor class of student pilots, trying to get a position in USAAF Ferrying Command, news from Jackie Cochran, recent gifts, and trying to get leave.

Date: 1943-12-29?

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 31, 1943]

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

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, December 17, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing recent letters, ferrying a plane and her return trip, Christmas gifts, running into someone from home, uniforms, and weather. Typed on American Airlines stationary.

Date: December 17, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, December 27, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing mail, orders to ferry a UC-78, selling her car, bonds and rations, and Christmas greetings and celebrations. Typed on Santa Rita Hotel stationary.

Date: December 27, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Delnar Werner to Mickey McLernon, December 14, 1943]

Letter from Delnar Werner to Mickey McLernon discussing the air time they have so far and what they have been doing.

Date: December 14, 1943

Creator: Werner, Delnar L.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Delnar Werner to Mickey McLernon, December 27, 1943]

Letter from Delnar Werner to Mickey McLernon discussing recent experiences in aviation, including shooting down a B-17.

Date: December 27, 1943

Creator: Werner, Delnar L.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Jacqueline Cochran to Catherine Parker, December 4, 1943]

Copy of a letter from Jacqueline Cochran to Catherine Parker discussing the changes to her scheduled Women's Airforce Service Pilot training class.

Date: December 4, 1943

Creator: Cochran, Jacqueline

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Lois Nash to Mr. Nick A. Hill, December 17, 1943]

Letter from Lois Nash to Mr. Nick A. Hill containing an invitation to the 43-W-8 graduation in Sweetwater, Texas.

Date: December 17, 1943

Creator: Nash, Lois

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Lt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, December 9, 1943]

Letter from Lieutenant Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon discussing past correspondence, telling her who Bill Stewart is, that he may come visit her, and making conversation.

Date: December 9, 1943

Creator: Drew, Edward Allen

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Nancy Brummitt at Outpatient Clinic]

Photograph of Nancy Brummitt standing outside the outpatient clinic at Camp Barkeley. A handwritten note on the photo reads: "Nancy Brummitt C.B.T. Dec 1943."

Date: December 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Officers Outside Station Hospital]

Photograph of Frank J. Jacobson, V. J. Sampognaro, and J. S. Scott standing outside the station hospital at Camp Barkeley.

Date: December 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

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Avenger Field Yearbook, Class 44-W-5

[Christmas Decorations in the 82d Medical Battalion Mess Hall]

[Christmas Dinner in the 82nd Medical Battalion's Headquarters]

[Einsiedel Wedding Photo]

[Hoffman at Station Hospital]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 2, 1943?]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 5, 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 8, 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 15, 1943?]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 20, 1943?]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 23, 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 24, 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 26, 1943?]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 29, 1943?]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 31, 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, December 17, 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, December 27, 1943]

[Letter from Delnar Werner to Mickey McLernon, December 14, 1943]

[Letter from Delnar Werner to Mickey McLernon, December 27, 1943]

[Letter from Jacqueline Cochran to Catherine Parker, December 4, 1943]

[Letter from Lois Nash to Mr. Nick A. Hill, December 17, 1943]

[Letter from Lt. Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon, December 9, 1943]

[Nancy Brummitt at Outpatient Clinic]

[Officers Outside Station Hospital]