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Backwoods to Border

Description: Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

Student Pilot Handbook

Description: Handbook for student pilots, detailing procedures, maneuvers, and judgement criteria for learning how to fly planes. The book includes numerous illustrations, some humorous and others instructional, to aid the student. There are several handwritten notes on the front page from grateful students of the WASP class 44-W-3.
Date: March 1943
Creator: Hunt, Jack & Fahringer, Ray
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[World War II Photo Album]

Description: Album containing a collecton of photographs taken during World War II, most of them at or near Camp Barkeley in Taylor County, Texas. The images include living quarters, soldiers, and training exercises. Many of the pages are blank.
Date: 1943~/1945~
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Fundamentals of Elementary Flight Maneuvers

Description: Textbook titled "Fundamentals of Elementary Flight Maneuvers" describing introductory material related to flying aircraft, such as starting and taxiing the plane, executing turns, and various considerations for take-offs and landings.
Date: February 1943
Creator: United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Instrument Flying Instrument Trainer Instruction Guide

Description: Textbook titled "Instrument Flying: Instrument Trainer Instruction Guide" or "Instrument Flying: Ground Trainer" or Technical Order No. 30-100C-1, created August 1, 1943 by authority of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces.
Date: August 1, 1943
Creator: Army Air Forces
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Your Body in Flight

Description: Textbook titled "Your Body in Flight" or Technical Order No. 00-25-13, created July 20, 1943 by authority of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces.
Date: July 20, 1943
Creator: Army Air Forces
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Shoe Ration Booklet from First National Bank]

Description: Shoe ration booklet from First National Bank in Grapevine, Texas; the booklet contains 20 receipt stubs followed by 30 blank receipts. The majority of stubs show purchases from Graham Brown Shoe Co.
Date: {1943..1944}
Partner: City of Grapevine

[McMurry Music Department Scrapbook 1941-1943]

Description: Scrapbook of materials related to music and fine arts events at McMurry College between 1941 and 1943, including programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other items.
Date: 1943~
Partner: McMurry University Library

Texas Almanac, 1943-1944

Description: The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, agriculture, weather, "resources, industries, commerce, history, government, population and all other subjects relating to the political, civic and economic development" of the time. A general index is on page 321.
Date: 1943
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Mathematics Work Book

Description: Mathematics work book with math problems relating to aviation and answers to those problems handwritten written in pencil.
Date: 1943~
Creator: Army Air Forces Preflight School (Pilot)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Patter for Elementary Flight Maneuvers

Description: Textbook titled "Patter for Elementary Flight Maneuvers" describing introductory material related to basic flight maneuvers for aircraft.
Date: February 1943
Creator: United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Your Body in Flight

Description: Manual illustrated with cartoons for quick memorization demonstrating the effects of flight on the human body and the best practices for safe aviation.
Date: July 20, 1943
Creator: Aero Medical laboratory
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Instrument Flying: Basic

Description: Technical manual containing training documentation related to basic flying of aircraft.
Date: January 3, 1943
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Physics Work Book]

Description: Physics work book with problems and exercises relating to physics in aviation and answers to those problems handwritten written in blue pen ink. The names, "Solange D'Hooghe" and "Mr. Morrissette" are handwritten in the top right corner of the cover.
Date: February 1943
Creator: Army Air Forces Preflight School (Pilot)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Soil Survey for Dimmit County, Texas

Description: Text describes climate, agriculture, soils, and crops of Dimmit County, Texas.
Date: April 1943
Creator: Smith, Howard Malcolm, 1900- & Huckabee, John Walter, 1912-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Diary of Minnie Howard Walker: 1943-1947]

Description: Five-year diary of Minnie Howard Walker from January 1, 1943 through December 31, 1947.
Date: 1943-01-01/1947-12-31
Creator: Walker, Minnie Maud Howard
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

Air Power

Description: Book detailing the work of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, including training programs, personnel, types of airplanes in use, and methods of fighting.
Date: 1943
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

Catalogue of Howard Payne College, 1942-1943

Description: Catalogue describes the history, governance, admission requirements, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: April 1943
Creator: Howard Payne College (Brownwood, Tex.)
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

Philosophical Society of Texas, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting: 1942

Description: Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Philosophical Society of Texas held on December 5, 1942, including a list of attendees, text of addresses, changes to membership, and biographical information about members who have passed.
Date: 1943
Creator: Philosophical Society of Texas
Partner: Philosophical Society of Texas

Avenger Field Yearbook, Class 44-W-5

Description: 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.)
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

My Life of Eighty Years

Description: Bound autobiographical manuscript written by Mary Stanton outlining her early life in Georgia, her education, and working as a teacher and administrator in El Paso before retiring in 1925. She also briefly discusses travel and personal thoughts about teaching, with an addendum regarding the early organization of the El Paso Public Library.
Date: July 25, 1943
Creator: Stanton, Mary I.
Partner: El Paso Public Library
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