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[Clipping: Fifty Years Ago Today]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article featuring excerpts from the Dallas Morning News fifty year prior. Some of the excerpts are about Dallas county indictments to conviction ratio and a Dallas restaurant with a singing parrot. An article is partially visible on the reverse side about peanut farm loss.
Date: July 30, 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Clipping: Wasps and Wacs Enter Service]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about Nancy Love being selected as the leader of the newly organized WACS, a group of ferrying female pilots. The WASPs are also mentioned in this article and other articles about the Ferrying Division, entertainment, and a Professor from Tokyo coming to speak are included as well.
Date: November 5, 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Cornelia Yerkes with DC-3]

Description: Photograph of Cornelia Yerkes standing next to the port engine of a Douglas DC-3 at Love Field. She is wearing her uniform and posing with a bag in her left hand, with her right hand raised to her head as she looks off into the distance.
Date: [1943-09..1944-12]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Form letter from Major L. M. Fellbaum to Local Board No. 4, Dallas County - 1943]

Description: A form letter addressed to LOCAL BOARD No. 4, Dallas County, from L. M. Fellbaum, Major, Q. M. C. Policy Supervisor. Fellbaum advises of a routine inspection by a Clerical Audit Supervisor and the requirements regarding the inspection. He advises in a postcript that Mr. T. N. Carswell, Clerical Audit Supervisor, will advise the board who the Supervisor will be and when he will visit their board. Handwritten notation confirms this correspondence was sent to all Dallas County Labor Boards except… more
Date: 1943
Creator: Fellbaum, L. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter and Business Card: From Francis A. Buddin to T. N. Carswell - September 1, 1943]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Francis A. Buddin, Chairman Executive Committee, United Texas Drys, dated September 1, 1943. Buddin advises Carswell of the election of Dr. W. H. McKenzie, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Grand Prairie, as the replacement for Davis. Typewritten on church letterhead. Enclosed wtih the letter is a business card for Francis Asbury Buddin, District Superintendent, The Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas.
Date: September 1, 1943
Creator: Buddin, Francis Asbury
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Captain Charles J. Maisel to T. N. Carswell - July 28, 1943]

Description: A letter written to Legionnaire Thos. N. Carswell, 5th Division Commander, The American Legion, Abilene, Texas, from Capt. Chas. J. Maisel, Department Commander, Dallas, Texas, dated July 28, 1943. Maisel appoints Carswell as Chairman of the RULES Committee for the Department War Conference and discusses the arrangements to be made at Fort Worth for meeting rooms and bulletin boards.
Date: July 28, 1943
Creator: Maisel, Charlie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Captain Charlie Maisel to T. N. Carswell - September 28, 1943]

Description: A letter written to Mr. Thomas N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Captain Charlie Maisel, United States Marine Corps Southern Recruiting Division, Dallas, Texas, dated September 28, 1943. Maisel outlines the events of his year as Commander of Texas advising that it is ending and expresses his pleasure to Carswell in having served as the Chairman of the Texas delegation with such a fine Legionnaire.
Date: September 28, 1943
Creator: Maisel, Charlie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, August 12, 1943]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing riding on an airliner, her divorce and related legal proceedings, including changing her name from Colby back to Yerkes, and news about friends. Written on 5th Ferrying Group stationary.
Date: August 12, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 5, 1943]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying orders, Christmas shopping, her car, rations and bonds, rumors about the WASPs being merged into the Army Air Force, her flight hours, Christmas leave, and talks from a safety officer about recent accidents. Typed on Santa Rita Hotel (Tucson) stationary.
Date: December 5, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 31, 1943]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing traveling to Wichita, being grounded by a snowstorm, picking up Cessnas for delivery, trying to find a Parker 51 pen, food, and recent correspondence. Written on 5th Ferrying Group stationary.
Date: December 31, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 8, 1943]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, probably to her father, discussing recent letters, money, a watch, poor weather, flying planes to Sweetwater, being buzzed by a P-40, Southerners, and her coat. Written on Hotel Heidelberg (Jackson) stationary.
Date: November 8, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 4, 1943?]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing an upcoming flight, clothes, an acquaintance having a car accident, bonds, the weather, flying to an airfield on the border, and spending the night in Mexico. Typed and written on Hutson Hotels stationary.
Date: 1943-10-04?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 11, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing delivering a plane and flying back to Dallas, chores, seeing For Whom the Bell Tolls, seeing Tito Guízar in concert, and flying to Camden, AK. Typed and written on Hutson Hotels stationary.
Date: October 11, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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