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[Aircraft Delivery Memorandum]

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: Text

[Aircraft Delivery Order #6]

Orders for several Air Force Pilots and WASP to ferry aircraft from Wichita Kansas to air bases in various U.S. cities.

Date: January 28, 1944

Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group

Item Type: Text

[Aircraft Delivery Orders #3]

Orders for an Air Force pilot and two WASP to ferry planes from the Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita, Kansas to San Angelo, Texas and Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Date: February 9, 1944

Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group

Item Type: Text

[Aircraft Delivery Orders #8]

Orders for several Air Force pilots and WASP to ferry various aircraft from Wichita, Kansas to Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Date: January 31, 1944

Creator: 555th Army Air Forces Base Unit - 5th Ferrying Group

Item Type: Text

[Clipping: Earhart route flier set to go]

Newspaper clipping discussing the plans of pilot Grace McGuire to travel over the Pacific Ocean from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island; similar to the route which Amelia Earhart took and ended up missing.

Date: July 24, 1983

Creator: Welde, Deena

Item Type: Clipping

[Clipping: Earhart route flier set to go]

Photocopy of an article about Grace McGuire and the dangerous journey she will fly from New Guinea to Howland Island in an attempt to "duplicate" Amelia Earhart's last flight.

Date: July 24, 1983

Creator: Welde, Deena

Item Type: Clipping

[Clipping: Flying Bombers in World War II: Stories my mother told me.]

Photocopy of a magazine clipping about how Geraldine Jordan became a pilot, how Jacqueline Cochran and Nancy Love created the WASP program, and the history of the WASP.

Date: August 2010

Creator: Jordan, Melissa

Item Type: Clipping

[Envelope Addressed to Mr. Rigdon Edwards]

Envelope addressed to Mr. Rigdon Edwards in Sweetwater, Texas, from Mr. Joseph Haydu.

Date: 1976-06-24~

Creator: Haydu, Joseph

Item Type: Text

[History of Women Airforce Service Pilots Rough Draft]

Rough draft of a brief essay on how the Women Airforce Service Pilots at Avenger Field came into existence.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

[Letter from Bee Haydu to Rigdon Edwards, June 23, 1976]

Letter from Bee Haydu to Rigdon Edwards thanking him for his hospitality in Sweetwater, Texas, and a plaque presentation ceremony in which they both participated. The letter is printed on stationery for the WASP 1976 Reunion.

Date: June 23, 1976

Creator: Haydu, Bernice Falk

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 4, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing mechanical difficulties with an airplane, dinner with an Air Corps lieutenant, typing reports, flying to and from Newark, more mechanical problems, and waiting to travel to New York and Dallas.

Date: December 4, 1944