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[Clipping: Why Women Can Fly]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP Eleanor "Mickey" Brown, including a brief history of the WASP, Brown's personal history, and an overview of her current activities. The article includes a photograph of Brown with The Graduate statue. Part of a large advertisement for Lowe's hardware store is visible on the back of the clipping.
Date: August 2006
Creator: Clough, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASP in Graduation Uniform]

Description: Photograph of tow women in light colored uniforms standing on a wood platform with chairs behind them. A man in uniform can be seen to the right. Writing on the back of the photo reads, " Mrs. Berry Giles, Jacqueline Cochran, Col. Geer, Air Inspector Randolph Field" and "Graduation 44-W-6 Aug 4, 1944". The same information is relayed on a tag seen taped to the bottom of the photo.
Date: August 4, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Victorian Outraged by AF Woman Pilot 'First']

Description: Newspaper clipping of a letter to the editor by Eleanor "Mickey" McLernon Brown, expressing outrage over the Air Force's announcement of the training completion of their "first" woman pilot. Mrs. Brown details how the members of WASP flew during WWII, were largely ignored by historical accounts of the U.S. Air Force, and were denied Veteran status. On the back of the clipping is an advertisement for a television.
Date: August 14, 1977
Creator: Brown, Eleanor McLernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Why Women Can Fly]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP Eleanor "Mickey" Brown, which also details some of the history of the WASP. The article includes quotes from Brown about the joys of flying and a photograph of Brown standing next to the Graduate statue. There are advertisements for Lowe's hardware store on the back of the clipping.
Date: August 17, 2006
Creator: Clough, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Why Women Can Fly]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP Eleanor "Mickey" Brown, which also details some of the history of the WASP. The article includes quotes from Brown about the joys of flying and a photograph of Brown standing next to The Graduate statue. There are advertisements on the back of the clipping.
Date: August 17, 2006
Creator: Clough, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Elaine Harmon to Mrs. and Mrs. Edwards, August 11, 1980]

Description: Letter from WASP Elaine Harmon to Mrs. and Mrs. Edwards discussing the weather, and receiving a genealogy of her husband's grandmother that mentioned someone from Sweetwater, Texas named Bess Laverne. She asks them if they know anything about this woman. She also discusses communicating with a Robin Cannon and his wife, and the health concerns of several mutual friends. The letter is written on WASP stationary.
Date: August 11, 1980
Creator: Harmon, Elaine D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Francie Meisner Park to Curley's Studio, August 16, 1985]

Description: Letter from Francie Meisner Park to Curley's Studio requesting a price for prints of her WASP flight school graduation photograph. There are handwritten notes on the back of the letter, also from Francie, but addressed to Rigdon Edwards. Also included is an envelope addressed to Curley's Studio, which has a "return to sender" stamp on it.
Date: August 16, 1985
Creator: Park, Francie Meisner
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim - August 31, 1945]

Description: Photographs of Dan Melli and John and Joe Hurt in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The top four photographs show the men consorting with two very young girls identified as Hannala and Greshia. The picture on the top left has the two blonde children standing alone by a picket fence. The image to the top right has Melli kneeling between them and embracing them. The second image on the left has Joe Hurt embracing the girls. The second photo on the right shows both Hurt and Melli sitting with the girls on the… more
Date: August 31, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim]

Description: Photographs of scenes from around Rüsselsheim, Germany following the American occupation. The top photo features Dan Melli sitting on a low brick wall in front of a dispensary with Thomas Walsh leaning through a window. The next photo features men identified as Magnani, Technical Sergeant Nelson, Ferdinand Caravelli, and Captain Brookshire standing together in front of a row of homes. The final picture has Dan Melli standing next to the provocatively posed Technical Sergeant Nelson.
Date: August 22, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
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