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Abilene Chamber of Commerce Members With Billboard

Description: Copy negative of a group of Abilene Chamber of Commerce Members at the 15th Texas' Largest Barbecue in honor of Dyess AFB. The Banner reads "Dyess….. / Abilene Thinks You're Great / Texas' Largest Barbecue / by Abilene Chamber of Commerce". The men in the picture from left to right: Colonel King(?), W. P. "Dub" Wright, Jim Naler, Troy Sampley, J.C. Hunter (behind man leaning out), E.N. Wishcamper (leaning out), Oliver Howard, and Fred Lee Hughes.
Date: May 8, 1971
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Clipping: Cornelia Fort, WASP [1919-1943] Remembers...]

Description: Full page from the Stars and Stripes featuring a column by Patricia Collins Hughes about Cornelia Fort, who died while serving as a ferry pilot during World War Two. Hughes also includes Fort's account of the attack of Pearl Harbor. To the right of Hughes' column are two pictures of veterans at VFW posts and one picture of a US Congressman meeting with an airman stationed in the U.K. The reverse of the page includes the newspaper's masthead, letters to the editor, and an editorial about the VA … more
Date: December 8, 1977
Creator: Hughes, Patricia Collins
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Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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