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[Clipping: Tests by experts challenge Navy over Iowa blast]

Description: Newspaper clipping from the New York Times about government experts re-examining an explosion that occurred on a turret of the U.S.S. Iowa in 1989, and finding that the explosion was an accident. Previously, the incident was believed to be intentional due to a homosexual relationship gone bad between two Navy men.
Date: May 1990
Creator: Schmitt, Eric
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Navy Helldiver returns from a mission]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a large photograph of a WWII Navy Helldiver plane banking to land on an aircraft carrier. The photograph includes a brief description describing the circumstances of the plane's landing. There are other articles on the back of the clipping, about U.S. politicians and a photograph of women holding small children.
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Women of War]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a section of the May 1990 issue of The Miami Herald. Articles about the WASPs service in World War 2, why Maria Muniz joined the Marine Corps, two nurses who served in the Vietnam War, and more are included.
Date: May 27, 1991
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Three Rescued Fliers Thank Vietnamese]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about U.S. Navy pilots who were rescued by a Vietnamese ship after crashing in the South China Sea. The article includes a photograph of Elizabeth Steinnecker and another navy pilot. On the back of the clipping are articles about local news and a one-panel cartoon about cartoons.
Date: July 20, 1988
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: WASPS Galore]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about Mickey McLernon's plan to bring six of her fellow WASP trainees with her on her next visit home to San Antonio. There is an advertisement for a summer activity on the back of the clipping.
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Newspaper: Experts challenging Navy on Iowa blast]

Description: Photocopy of a group of newspaper clippings of The New York Times pertaining to an Iowa blast involving the U.S. Navy, a murder case and the arrest of two suspects involved in a pipe bomb blast.
Date: May 26, 1990
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping photocopy: Tests by experts challenge Navy over Iowa blast]

Description: Newspaper clipping from the New York Times about government experts re-examining an explosion that occurred on a turret of the U.S.S. Iowa in 1989, and finding that the explosion was an accident. Previously, the incident was believed to be intentional due to a homosexual relationship gone bad between two Navy men.
Date: May 1990
Creator: Schmitt, Eric
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Scarsdale Home News]

Description: Newspaper clipping from No. 11 of the Scarsdale Home News. The main article is titled "A Family Affair," which discusses the swearing in of Dorothy Jean Leslie as a member of the WAVES or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Other articles center around the local weather phenomenon, post-war plans, the returns of local veterans, wedding announcements, and obituaries.
Date: October 7, 1944
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "Early-bird Registration"]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a photograph with text under that reads: " Its been 15 years since Doris Tanner visited Sweetwater for the 1972 reunion for the Woman Airforce Service Pilots(WASPs). During this week-end's reunion, Tanner will take over as the president-elect of the WASP organization. She has written a biographical account of Leni Deaton's life and year's as administrative assistant to Col. Jacqueline Cochran, WASP commander. The account is partially reprinted in today's Sweetwater Reporte… more
Date: September 25, 1986
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: First Women Set To Fly Jets"]

Description: Newspaper clipping with an article about female Air Force pilots being trained to fly jets.
Date: September 11, 1976
Creator: Rowland, Diane
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "Leapfrogs Parachute Over Avenger Field"]

Description: Newspaper clipping with an article about the US Navy's Leapfrogs coming to parachute over Avenger Field and another about Doris Tanner's biography of Jacqueline Cochran.
Date: September 25, 1986
Creator: Redden, Gail
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Naval Air Transport Service magazine clipping]

Description: Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with full color lithograph commercially printed illustrations with descriptive text featuring airplanes and the Naval Air Transportation Service. The page serves as an advertisement for electric propellers and their role in the Pacific theatre of the war.
Date: [1939..1945]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Torches at Midnight]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a redhead Varga Girl posed diagonally across the page wearing a black negligee paired with the two stanza verse "Torches at Midnight" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of the painting The Commander's Last Dive by John Falter used especially for the October edition of 1943. The painting depicts a Navy Commander hanging to the side of submarine forty-two as it sinks.
Date: October 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Christmas Tidings]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. The front page of the spread features a blonde Varga girl dressed in white and gold smiling and kneeling over a telegraph from her soldier paired with a two stanza verse by Phil Stack. On the following page is a reproductive print of the painting "The Ordeal of John Paul Jones" by Anton Otto Fischer done especially for Esquire Magazine. The painting celebrates prominent Scottish-born Naval commander John Paul … more
Date: December 1945
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Fischer, Anton Otto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Illustrations of Varga Sailor Girl and a Horse Race]

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring a spread of a blonde Varga Girl wearing a modified white naval dress uniform paired with a two stanza descriptive verse by Phil Stack. Following the pin-up is a reproduction print of the painting Man O' War Beating John P. Grier" by Frank Voss done especially for Esquire Magazine April 1945. The painting celebrates the famous American Thoroughbred racehorse Man O' War.
Date: April 1945
Creator: Vargas, Alberto & Voss, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Wings of Excellence]

Description: Magazine clipping of an article about the history of women in aviation.
Date: August 1995
Creator: Novak, C. James
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "War In Europe Over! Germany Quits!"]

Description: Photocopy of a portion of The Shreveport Times front page and several articles for May 1945, including information about combat in Manila, the redeployment of 800 planes, the attack on Pearl Harbor, news of the end of World War II, and more are included.
Date: May 7, 1945
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: A Memorial to Honor Women Who Served]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about the dedication of the Women in Military Service for America memorial and women who served in the Revolutionary, Civil, and World Wars.
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[U.S.S. Boxer Explosion]

Description: Magazine or periodical clipping regarding the explosion on the U.S.S. Boxer around 1952. This belonged to Arthur Howard Malone, mementos from the time he served in the U.S. Navy.
Date: 1952
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Clipping with War Cartoon]

Description: A cartoon illustration regarding security regulations being lifted. The cartoon depicts a security officer sitting a desk smoking a cigarette with his legs on the desk. A line of various military personnel, some wearing military caps and holding paper and pencils, extends from the desk to a doorway at the back of the room. To the left of a cartoon a line graph shows a large increase extending off the graph. On the right side of the room is a desk. At the bottom of the cartoon is the caption: "S… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Nelson
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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