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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

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, March 20, 1943]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on March 20, 1943. He reports his arrival in Africa, as well as the delivery of 35 of his parents' letters. He expresses his wish that his friends still in the U.S. would wait as long as they could to join the army, including his cousin Jimmie Kendrick.
Date: March 20, 1943
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from G. F. Buskie to Plosser-Prince Air Academy, March 24, 1943]

Description: Letter from G. F. Buskie to Plosser-Prince Air Academy discussing the appointment of a Defense Plant Corporation engineer to the Plosser-Prince Air Academy to oversee the expansion program approved by the Defense Plant Corporation Board of Directors two days previous. The bottom of the letter is initialed by J. B. Plosser.
Date: March 24, 1943
Creator: Buskie, G. F.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Certificate of Elimination, March 1943]

Description: Text certifying that three women have been eliminated from the training program at Avenger Field (the 318th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment) in March 1943. It includes name, date eliminated, and reason for each person.
Date: March 25, 1943
Creator: McConnell, Landon E.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, March 18, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent letters, the weather and flying, ground school, being able to fly solo, taking a trip to San Angelo, missing socks, maintaining her car, a new class of trainees, pictures from her dad, problems with dry skin, and her next phase of training.
Date: March 18, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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