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[Clipping: Above and Beyond]

Description: Newspaper clipping from the LA Times with the article "Above and Beyond," which discusses the Women Airforce Service Pilots and their struggle to gain recognition for their service, as well as interviews with veterans. Excerpts from other articles and a Doonesbury comic are also included.
Date: October 2, 1996
Creator: Howlett, Susan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Women, Wings and War]

Description: Photocopy of an article discussing Margaret Harper's experience serving in the WASP, duties she was given, the discontinuation of the WASP, and sexual discrimination against female veterans. Another article about the history and preservation of WASP history in Texas Woman's University is also included.
Date: July 18, 1989
Creator: Porter, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Correspondence Between Victor J. Nelson, Defense Plant Corporation and James H. Beall, Jr., November 1942]

Description: Copies of correspondence between Victor J. Nelson, Defense Plant Corporation and James H. Beall, Jr. discussing the termination of Victor Nelson's contract with Plosser and Prince Academy, as well as several fees owed to nelson.
Date: 1942-11-13/1942-11-17
Creator: Nelson, Victor J. & Beall, James H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Group Petition #1]

Description: Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, from ten members living in Texas. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter. The signatures found at the bottom of the page include the member's WASP class and street address.
Date: 1979-09~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Group Petition #2]

Description: Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII and circulated to the WASP class secretaries. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter. This version of the petition does not include the Texas Ten's signatures.
Date: 1979-09~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Group Petition #3]

Description: Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, from ten members living in Texas. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter. The signatures found at the bottom of the page include the member's WASP class and street address.
Date: 1979-09~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Group Petition #4]

Description: Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, from ten members living in Texas. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter.
Date: 1979-09~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Betty Jane Williams to Maxine Flournoy, February 23, 2001]

Description: Letter from Betty Jane Williams to WASP President Maxine Flournoy discussing the decision to pay Mildred Carter's expenses to attend the WASP's next national conference. During WWII, Carter had applied to join the WASP but was denied because the government excluded African-American women from serving in the program. Williams disagrees with the action taken at the October business meeting and urges the WASP to rescind their offer to pay Carter's expenses.
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: Williams, Betty Jane
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Betty Riddle to Mr. Rigdon Edwards, August 21, 1973]

Description: Letter from Betty Riddle to Mr. Rigdon Edwards discussing a letter she received a letter from Gip D. Oldham, Jr., to which she's not sure how to respond. She asks Mr. Edwards for help with how to respond, and mentions that she has fond memories of Sweetwater, Texas. The letter she discusses, which is included, asks for information from ex-instructors in the WASP air school for the WASP newsletter. Also included is the envelope addressed to Mr. Edwards from Betty Riddle.
Date: August 21, 1973
Creator: Riddle, Betty
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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