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[Special Orders Number 121, Extract 2]

Description: Special orders extract listing several men from Sweetwater who were inducted as flight instructors and Air Corps mechanics that are to remain on inactive status. Rigdon Edwards Jr., known Women Airforce Service Pilots instructor, can be seen listed among the names.
Date: May 20, 1944
Creator: United States. Air Force.
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Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Lubbock County Water Analysis]

Description: Water survey report from Lubbock County in 1945 listing records of all "wells and springs, drillers' logs, water analyses, and map showing locations of wells and springs".
Date: April 1945
Creator: Clark, C. S.
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Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Enlisted Reserve Corp I.D. Rigdon Edwards]

Description: Front and back copies of an identification card for the Enlisted Reserve Corps belonging to WASP flight instructor, Rigdon Edwards. They are posted on a sheet of blue paper along with a photograph of Edwards in uniform, seen to the right.
Date: May 20, 1944
Creator: United States Army
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Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interviews with Charley L. Pryor, 1972-1973

Description: Interview with Charley L. Pryor, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Lubbock, Texas, who survived the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30). Pryor discusses the sinking of the Houston, his capture, experiences in imprisonment at Serang, Java, experiences at Bicycle Camp in Batavia and Changi Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, American air raids, and liberation.
Date: 1972-11/1973-02
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Pryor, Charley L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Lubbock Army Flying School Graduation Announcement, 1942]

Description: Invitation for the graduation from The Lubbock Army Flying School for November 10, 1942. The front cover has the name of the flying school and an illustration of an airplane in the bottom right corner. The text on the inside reads, "The Lubbock Army Flying School of Lubbock, Texas announces the graduation of Class 42-J. Tuesday morning, November tenth, nineteen hundred and forty-two at ten o'clock."
Date: 1942
Creator: Lubbock Army Air Field (Tex.)
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Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

Oral History Interview with George P. Lawley, November 3, 1973

Description: Interview with George P. Lawley, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Odessa, Texas. Lawley discusses his time with the so-called "Lost Battalion" on Java and his experiences as a Japanese prisoner-of-war, including: joining the National Guard in 1940 and training, deployment for East Asia with 2nd Battallion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment; diversion to Java at the start of the war; the Japanese attack and his unit's capture; and his experiences in internment and labor at Tanjong Priok in Batavia… more
Date: November 3, 1973
Creator: Teague, William J. & Lawley, George P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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