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The Eagle, Volume 1, Number 50, Thursday, April 15, 1943

Description: Weekly newsletter published for employees of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation Fort Worth Division containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news. This issue includes a two-page photo spread on the corporation's top events and achievements of the past year.
Date: April 15, 1943
Creator: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth
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Oral History Interview with Jessie Clark, June 6, 2002

Description: Interview with Jessie Clark regarding her experiences during World War II. She discusses having to adjust to a lifestyle of rationing for food products and shoes as well as blackouts and scrap metal drives. Her husband worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad and was often absent while she stayed home to raise their children in Houston. She discusses the scarcity of toys during Christmas and hosiery.
Date: June 6, 2002
Duration: 26 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Loyd, Ms. & Clark, Jessie
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Suzette Van Daell Douglas Scrapbook]

Description: Scrapbook from Suzette Van Daell Douglas containing documents, photographs, awards and newspaper clippings that pertain to her time as a WASP. The front cover has a laminated section of a Dallas flight map with a Fifinella patch, and the back cover has a laminated copy of the WASP Life magazine cover.
Date: unknown
Creator: Douglas, Suzette Van Daell
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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Oral History Interview with Melvin Harmon, October 21, 2002

Description: Interview with Melvin Harmon, a paratrooper during World War II. He discusses his paratrooper training and his time on Guadalcanal, Bougainville and other battles in the Solomon Islands. He also contracted malaria.
Date: October 21, 2002
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Morris, Cork & Harmon, Melvin
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Photo Memories of a Seabee Battalion

Description: Book compiled by the 136th Naval Construction "Seabee" Battalion documenting the history of the group from boot camp in Virginia to various military installations across the U.S. and more permanent postings in Guam and Japan during World War II. There are photographs of various persons and evens as well as an epistolary narrative and lists of names by company at the end of the text.
Date: 1945
Creator: United States. Naval Construction Battalion, 136th.
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum
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