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[Individual Clothing and Equipment Slip]

Description: Slip issuing individual clothing and equipment to enlisted men. It reads: "Issued the articles listed below to Justin L. Bible, ASN 18216582 593rd JASCO APO 70. 1 ea. carbine, Ser. Nu. 2140735, 1 ea. knife, trench M3, w/scabbard, M8."
Date: August 31, 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House 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, May 31, 1945?]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, somewhere overseas (possibly Hawaii) discussing her crowded sleeping accommodations at a hotel, recreating, a particularly good restaurant, music, going to a dance, and wondering where she will be sent next. Typed on American Red Cross stationary.
Date: 1945-05-31?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 31, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing receiving a pack of cigarettes, flying a fighter from Jackson, MS, to Raleigh and Newark, seeing a show and getting dinner, flying on an airliner at night, picking up a plane from Long Beach, news about her friend Marion, flying in a B-24, and happening to meet an Air Corps private who knew of her through a mutual acquaintance.
Date: October 31, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Dawn Seymour to Homer Taylor, Aug. 31, 1993]

Description: Letter from Dawn Seymour to Homer Taylor discussing photos enclosed of Mrs. Cliff Deaton and a plaque at the WASP wishing well created by General H.H. Arnold. A letter style template is also enclosed, and a price estimate for something can be seen written on the right side of the letter.
Date: August 31, 1993
Creator: Seymour, Dawn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Clara Evans Willis, May 31, 1944]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to Clara Evans Willis, on May 31, 1944. He entreats her to get well and be careful while recovering from her operation, and thanks her for some boxes of food she sent to him. He tells her his company has moved into tents, with six men to a tent, which he finds to be a relief from living in a room with thirty other men.
Date: May 31, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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