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[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 18, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing picking up a P-47, being grounded by fleet-wide defective landing gear, going to a street market, and trying to get transportation from Evansville to Dallas. Written on Hotel Vendome (Evansville) stationary.
Date: June 18, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 11, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, most likely to her mother, discussing her time on Oahu with friends at different clubs, her friend's photography, meeting a woman from her hometown who was returning from the South Pacific, and shipping some things home. It is written on Burlington Hotel (Washington D.C.) stationary.
Date: June 11, 1945, 7:00 p.m.
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Red Cross Workers in Barracks]

Description: Photograph of seven Red Cross workers in their accommodations, with the woman in the bottom right ironing. Cornelia Yerkes lies on a lower bunk at center. There are various parts of luggage and articles of clothes scattered around the room.
Date: 1945-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, June 2, 1945?]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing letters, ferrying a P-51, catching up with a fellow WASP from Brownsville, being the first WASP to deliver a P-51 to Kansas City, a check she mailed, and other work and family related items. Written on Braniff Airways stationary.
Date: 1945-06-02?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 6, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying out of Kansas City, news about the invasion of Normandy, her friend Nancy Nesbitt, recent correspondence, flying P-51s at high altitude, books, physical examinations, and her friend Bobby's marriage. Typed on the back of official memo cards.
Date: June 6, 1944, 1:00 p.m.
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Red Cross Workers in Barracks]

Description: Photograph of eight Red Cross women in their quarters, most dressed for bed. One woman is lying in a sheet on a bunk, another stands to her right, and the rest are sitting around a bed in the back; Cornelia Yerkes is lying nearest the corner. Their uniforms hang on the window and wall behind them, and there are various items scattered around the room.
Date: 1945-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 25, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, possibly to her father, discussing a cross-country flight to finish basic flight training, schedules, advanced courses, the recipient's health, packages from home, a plane catching fire, and news about friends/family.
Date: June 25, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 13, 1943]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, most likely to her parents, discussing stationary, gifts, finding a lamb, sleep, flight training, where she will be stationed, graduation exercises, her car and car insurance, a letter from her friend Howard Boice, and not getting any leave time. Typed on USO "Easter Greetings" stationary.
Date: June 13, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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