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Special Pre "Red Alert" Notice

Description: A notice from Bee Haydu, asking members of a former WASP organization to contact their local Captains with their contact information, and information on upcoming legislation concerning the veteran status of former WASP members.
Date: February 1977
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Song Lyrics for Dedicated to the WASP--God Bless 'Em]

Description: A song written by Frances "Frankie" B. McInerney Warms dedicated to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, inspired by her own WASP class of 43-W-8. It praises the WASPs for their service, and it includes a "Post Script" for 1977 celebrating the WASP's recent recognition by the United States government. The back of the second page contains several groups of numbers written in pencil: "1014" and "471-8680."
Date: 1977
Creator: Warms, Frances B. McInerney
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter to Senator Alan Cranston, May 22, 1977]

Description: Letter from the Women Airforce Service Pilots(U.S.) to Senator Alan Cranston stating that the WASPs should be granted militarization by explaining how their tasks and experiences during World War II qualify as veteran service.
Date: May 22, 1977
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter to Congressman Kenneth P. Craig, September 15, 1977]

Description: Letter from the Women Airforce Service Pilots(U.S.) to Congressman Kenneth P. Craig thanking him for supporting their efforts to gain militarization. The letter provides further evidence of why the Women's Airforce Service Pilots should be granted veteran status.
Date: September 15, 1977
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter to Senator Alan Cranston, May 21, 1977]

Description: Letter from the Women Airforce Service Pilots(U.S.) to Senator Alan Cranston stating that the WASPs should be granted militarization by explaining how their tasks and experiences during World War II qualify as veteran service.
Date: May 21, 1977
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter to Senator Alan Cranston, May 21, 1977]

Description: Letter from the Women Airforce Service Pilots(U.S.) to Senator Alan Cranston stating that the WASPs should be granted militarization by explaining how their tasks and experiences during World War II qualify as veteran service.
Date: May 21, 1977
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Alan Cranston to Charlyne Creger, August 12, 1977]

Description: Letter from Alan Cranston to Charlyne Creger explaining that he recognizes the services provided by the Women Airforce Service Pilots(U.S.) during World War II. He also states that the U.S. Senate is working with the U.S. House of Representatives Committees on Veterans Affairs to extend the benefits held by veterans to WASPs as well.
Date: August 12, 1977
Creator: Cranston, Alan, 1914-2000
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Bee Haydu to WASP, February, 1977]

Description: Letter from Bee Haydu to other Women Airforce Service Pilots asking for help in compiling information for a new group roster, and also requesting photos and information regarding the group's past military treatment in order to help Bruce Arnold make a congressional case for WASP Militarization.
Date: February 1977
Creator: Haydu, Bee
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Charlyne Creger, May 20, 1977]

Description: Letter from Charlyne Creger explaining that she was admitted as a patient at Big Spring AAF along with Mary Shaw and Laura Rutledge who were injured in a B.T. 13 crash. Ms. Creger mentions that she will obtain an official correspondence from the Doctor in order to prove her treatment at the facility.
Date: May 20, 1977
Creator: Creger, Charlyne
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with John H. Owen, February 7, 1977

Description: Interview with John H. Owen, U.S. Army WWII veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Owen discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Tamarkan, Thailand (1944), Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China (1944-1945), and his li… more
Date: February 7, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Owen, John H., 1922-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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