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[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, April 1, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing being alone in the barracks, her training schedule, a visit from Jackie Cochran and related drill parade, a planned visit from General Hap Arnold, learning to fly basic trainers, not getting along with an instructor, recent correspondence, advantages of being the first class at Avenger Field, hope of getting Army commissions, the weather, bonds, and clothes. Typed on USO Seasons Greetings stationary.
Date: April 1, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

[Certificate of Elimination, April 1943]

Description: Text certifying that five women have been eliminated from the training program at Avenger Field (the 318th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment) in March and April 1943. It includes name, date eliminated, and reason for each person; one name has been stricken from the list with a handwritten note.
Date: April 6, 1943
Creator: McConnell, Landon E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASP Trainees]

Description: Photograph of four women standing at Avenger Field. From left to right: Helen Snapp, Margaret Bruns, Esther Rheinhold, and Jan Tate. All four are wearing their flight uniforms "Zoot Suits".
Date: April 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Women With Plane in Love Field]

Description: Photograph of four women standing in front of a plane with a star on it. Several notes handwritten on the back read, "April 1943, Love Field, Houston, Tex", "Mabel Rawbinson, Killed in Service, 1944, Kalamazoo, Mich", "Bertha Link (Trosky) Grand Rapids, Mich", "Dorothy Christenson (Mitchell), Milwaukee, Wis", "Evelyn Laesch (Mich)", "8700 S Main Houston, Texas, Room 21 Roomates, met on train in men's room".
Date: April 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, April 6, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying in hot weather, sunburns, her hectic schedule, a measles outbreak, news about friends, check flights and washouts, and needing clothes shipped. Typed on USO Seasons Greetings stationary and the back of a graded physics quiz.
Date: April 6, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, April 17, 1943]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents Fred and Frances discussing military and civilian check flights, drilling to prepare for a visit from newsreel cameras, needing a new car, friends and correspondence, and starting basic flight training. Typed on USO Seasons Greetings stationary.
Date: April 17, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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