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Mathematics Work Book

Mathematics work book with math problems relating to aviation and answers to those problems handwritten written in pencil.

Date: 1943~

Creator: Army Air Forces Preflight School (Pilot)

Item Type: Book

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Catherine Parker Flight Training Chart, September/October]

Chart listing the total hours of flight training received by Catherine Parker in the Women Airforce Service Pilots program during September and October of 1944. Various numerical notes are handwritten in the margins and back side.

Date: 1944-09/1944-10

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Suzanne M. Dee to Velta Benn, November 3, 1993]

Letter from Suzanne M. Dee showing her appreciation for the Women Airforce Service Pilots and suggesting that they share their knowledge and experience of flying to the next generation of pilots.

Date: November 3, 1993

Creator: Dee, Suzanne M.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Training: Instrument Pilot Proficiency

Military pamphlet describing training and certificates necessary to be considered proficient in instrument piloting.

Date: March 6, 1944

Creator: United States. Army Air Forces.

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Physics Work Book]

Physics work book with problems and exercises relating to physics in aviation and answers to those problems handwritten written in blue pen ink. The names, "Solange D'Hooghe" and "Mr. Morrissette" are handwritten in the top right corner of the cover.

Date: February 1943

Creator: Army Air Forces Preflight School (Pilot)

Item Type: Book

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Flight Time Notes]

Paper with handwritten notes documenting a total number of flight hours for dual and solo flight, Link trainer, hood, and night flying. The note is dated March 1952.

Date: March 1952

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Catherine Parker Flight Training Chart, August/September]

Chart listing the total hours of flight training received by Catherine Parker in the Women Airforce Service Pilots program during August and September of 1944. Various numerical notes are handwritten in the margins and back side.

Date: 1944-08/1944-09

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

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[News Clip: Wright]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Date: March 12, 1971

Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[News Clip: Grenwood memorial package Trumbla]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5 P.M.

Date: May 28, 1990

Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[News Clip: Amelia Earhart pkg]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 P.M.

Date: July 28, 1985

Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[News Clip: Careers-American Airlines]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Date: February 28, 1994, 5:00 p.m.

Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Henry Clay, Jr. to his Mother, November 13, 1917]

Letter from Henry Clay, Jr. to his mother on her birthday. Most of the first page is dedicated to his love for her but Clay returns to talking about his flight training. Clay ends by addressing the letter that his mom had sent two months earlier in which she talked about a nightmare she had.

Date: November 13, 1917

Creator: Clay, Henry, Jr.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: The University of Texas at Dallas

[Letter from Henry Clay, Jr. to his Family Back Home]

Letter from Henry Clay, Jr. to his family back home on the day after Christmas possibly in 1917. Clay speaks about his flight training and his desire to become a scout; he spent Christmas there but received a turkey dinner from Mrs. Henson. At the end he talks about the clock he is making out of a damaged propeller.

Date: 1917-12-26?

Creator: Clay, Henry, Jr.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: The University of Texas at Dallas

[Flying Certificate for Ellen J. Pitts]

Certificate stating that Ellen J. Pitts has completed 320 hours of a parachute training course. An illustration in blue ink of a plane can be seen printed behind the text.

Date: unknown

Creator: Army Flying School

Item Type: Text

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 5, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent correspondence, navigation training, and other work that student pilots have to do.

Date: June 5, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 5, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing a picture of her training class in a Sweetwater TX newspaper, a Chinese student pilot who got lost on a sortie, and her routine. Typed on folded stationary.

Date: June 5, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 16, 1942]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing becoming a link trainer instructor, students and instructors, link trainer aircraft, getting her car taken care of, dining on base, and working/flying hours.

Date: 1942-10-16?

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, April 6, 1943]

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: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Aviation Cadet Examining Boards

A list of boards in western states for examining aviation cadets for entry into the USAAF training.

Date: 1944~

Creator: United States. Army Air Forces.

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

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

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

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Herman F. Fuchs with Four WASPs on Snowy Day]

Photograph of Herman F. Fuchs (center) with four WASP trainees of class 44-W-5 crouching in front of a biplane on a snowy day. Three of the WASPs are wearing headwraps, while the fourth WASP and Fuchs are wearing flight caps. All have winter flying gear on.

Date: 1944-01~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, March 20, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her father thanking him for recent packages and discussing a solo flight, a check ride, taxiing at Avenger Field, calisthenics, weather, menial work, and money.

Date: March 20, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Herman Fuchs and WASP Student with Biplane]

Photograph of instructor Herman F. Fuchs seated in the rear cockpit of a Stearman primary trainer biplane as a student WASP boards the forward cockpit with her parachute. Both are looking back and smiling at the photographer, who is on the port rear side of the aircraft.

Date: 1944

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, Summer 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her father discussing buying a bond, being grounded from maintenance, night flying, food, doing laundry, future WASP assignments, and busyness and noise on the base.

Date: Summer 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum