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[News Script: F-111]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 23, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Confederate Air Force: Southern Minnesota Wing

Description: Pamphlet discussing the Confederate Air Force organization and the many goals and restoration projects of the Southern Minnesota Wing. Several photos of Air Force members can be seen on the front cover, includign a photo of a Woman Airforce Service pilot in the bottom left corner, with the name "Betty" written beneath her.
Date: unknown
Creator: Confederate Air Force
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Charles Stasny to his Parents, August 1, 1944]

Description: Letter from Charles Stasny to his parents discussing his participation in the bombardment and landings on Guam. He also discusses several people from back home, the possibility of calling his parents, and the possibility of getting leave, and sends his parents some money orders. This letter is written on United States Navy stationery.
Date: August 1, 1944
Creator: Stasny, Charles, 1921-2014
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

The Battle of the Solomons.

Description: Lyrical quatrain poem that rhymes on the 2nd and 4th line of each stanza on the subject of the Battle of the Solomons from the American's perspective.
Date: August 7, 1942
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Tulagi Specials.

Description: Two couplet rhyming poems composed as lyrics to the a song set to popular tunes. The first two stanzas are lyrics to a song set to the tune of "Shanty in Old Shanty Town" on the subject of horrible conditions at a foxhole on Tulaghi Isle. The second two stanzas are lyrics set to the tune of "My Gal Sal" being a comedic ode to General Douglas MacArthur.
Date: 194X
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letters Regarding the Invasion of Guadalcanal, 1942]

Description: Letter titled "Guadalcanal Tourist Bureau" painting a humorous picture of Guadalcanal to allied sailors preparing their invasion in the style of a tourism promotion. Letter titled "Guadalcanal Invasion" providing a sailor's personal account of the initial allied invasion of Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942, experiencing it both from the bridge of his ship and on the beach of Tulagi.
Date: 1942~
Creator: Turner, Richmond Kelly
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Negative of Soldiers and Young Boys on Wrecked Plane Wing]

Description: Negative of five soldiers and three young boys sitting and standing around a wrecked plane on a beach. Two of the soldiers sit on the wing of the plane to the left, one shirtless with rolled up pants and sunglasses and the other without pants in a collared shirt, helmet and sunglasses. Another soldier stands behind the wing of the plane shirtless with most of his body covered by one of the men in front of him. Two of the soldiers stand with legs propped up on the wing to the right in collared s… more
Date: 1942~
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Wounded Solider Being Lifted Into Airplane]

Description: Photograph of a wounded solider on a stretcher being lifted by four men into the open hatch of an airplane. Each man stands at a corner of the stretcher wearing long-sleeved collared shirts, long pants, boots and hats with flipped up brims.
Date: 1942~
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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