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[66th AIB Football Team]

Description: Copy photograph of the 66th Armored Infantry Battalion football team, posing in their football uniforms in 1945. Player #5 is Smiley, #25 is Bob Kampling, #21 is Lester Poreter, and #7 is Les Melchoime. Floyd Enix, Joe Despoto, "Nails" Morovoski, and Ed Gent are also pictured.
Date: September 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Aerial Photograph of Avenger Field at Sweetwater]

Description: Aerial photograph of a group of buildings at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. Most of the buildings are metal, and are connected by paths and roads. Airplane lanes and tarmac are visible in the background. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo give the date the photo was taken, and the name and address of a man named Richard Harkness.
Date: September 16, 1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Aerodynamics for Pilots

Description: Training manual on information needed for safely flying an airplane. Chapters cover topics such as physical laws, properties of air, general operation of flight, and forces that act on planes such as resistance, lift, weight, and drag.
Date: September 1940
Creator: Jones, Bradley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum]

Description: Orders for WASP Gayle D. Ewing to ferry an aircraft from Grand Prairie, Texas to Newark, New Jersey with specifications on the plane model, flight order, and instructions upon arrival at her destination. The order is signed by Captain Joe K. Bailey and Ben Handler for Captain William S. Kirkpatrick.
Date: September 11, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Newsletter]

Description: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association newsletter from September 1945. Page 69 includes six pictures of British Commercial Planes, both the outside of the plane and the cockpit; pages 70 and 71 list the "most complete releasable list of aircraft in use by the United States armed forces; page 72 shows eight pictures of planes that the reader is meant to identify, with an answer key below, as well as two diagrams of plane silhouettes; page 79 includes an add for Flightex; and page 80 includes inf… more
Date: September 1945
Creator: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Bernikow Preparing Rations for Other Soldiers]

Description: Photograph of Bernikow, left, preparing rations for other soldiers that have gathered in a wooded area. He and another soldier are holding a stick with a suspended frying basket that contains several cans of food. They're holding this basket over a smoking garbage can. Other soldiers to the right are holding pans and cups.
Date: September 28, 1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Blaylock and Atwell with a Jeep]

Description: Photograph of men named Blaylock and Atwell as they lean against a jeep that is missing its grille while holding tools. Two other men can be seen sitting in the jeep. A truck, trees, and a long building are visible in the background.
Date: September 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

Civil Pilot Training Manual

Description: Textbook titled "Civil Pilot Training Manual" describing introductory material related to flying aircraft, such as theory and fundamentals of flight and the use of instruments and safety gear. Catherine Parker's name is handwritten on the bottom left corner of the cover as well as on the title page.
Date: September 1941
Creator: United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clifford Koah Standing by a Door]

Description: Photograph of Clifford Koah wearing a U.S. Army uniform and garrison cap. He is standing by a white door set into a brick wall. The reverse of the photo bears a lip print in red lipstick. Some red lipstick has stained the front of the image.
Date: September 11, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Clipping: 318th Graduates Largest Class]

Description: Newspaper clipping describing the activities of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, class of 43-W-4, the type of meals they were served at Avenger Field and the details of their graduation ceremony.
Date: September 12, 1943
Creator: Welz, B. J. & Gardner, Elizabeth L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Aviatrixes]

Description: Newspaper clipping showing a journal photo of the Women Airforce Service Pilots having lunch with one of Russia's Night Witches. The ladies in the photo are wearing business casual attire and are seated around a table with open menu books.
Date: September 21, 1990
Creator: Edwards, Scott
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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