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[Eleanor McLernon Brown]

Description: Photograph of WASP Eleanor Brown seen from the chest up in uniform with WASP pins and wings attached. Two handwritten notes can be seen on the back of the photo. The first, in pencil, reads, "Eleanor McLernon (Brown) 1944". The second, in pen ink, reads, "Return to: Eleanor McLernon Brown 2201 N. DeLeon, Vicotria, Tx 77901 Wimsa Reg. 137050".
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Press Release: Address by General H.H. Arnold, and Statement from Jacqueline Cochran]

Description: War Department press release quoting the speech General Arnold gave to the final graduating class of Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II and a statement made by Jacqueline Cochran on the WASP's accomplishments. The pages are torn away at the edges in several places, most noticeably in the bottom left corner of the first page.
Date: December 7, 1944
Creator: Arnold, Henry Harley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Eleanor Brown with Plane]

Description: Photograph of Eleanor Brown in a flight suit and cap, carrying a parachute harness over her shoulder and leaning against a plane. A handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "Micky McLernon Brown 2201 N. Deleon Victoria, Tx". "1944" is written in pencil on the top back of the photo.
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping photocopy: WASP Militarization Favored by Stimson]

Description: Photocopy of a newspaper clipping of articles from the New York Times about the U.S.'s involvement in World War II, including an article about an initiative to give WASP members full military benefits. Among the articles are several small advertisements, some with illustrations. At the top of the photocopy is handwritten text identifying the newspaper and its publishing date.
Date: May 5, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Eleanor Brown in Uniform]

Description: Photograph pasted to thick paper board of WASP Eleanor brown in uniform and posed looking off camera. WASP and air force pins can be seen on her breast and lapels. A note in pen written on the back of the paper board reads, "Mickey, Eleanor McLernon (Brown) 1944".
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASP Group in Uniform]

Description: Photograph of eleven WASP in uniform posed in in two rows on a set of stone steps outside a building. Several notes are written on the back of the photo, including a list naming the group members. First note reads in faded pencil at the top, "Eleanor M. Brown 2201 N. DeLeon", followed by a typed address label for Robert S. Brown. The second note reads, "Back Row L-R, Ann Baron, Elizabeth Stavrum, Elizabeth (Betty) Pettit, Eleanor M. McLernon, Margaret Shaffer, Marry Ann Walker". The note beside… more
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Brown in Flight Suit]

Description: Photograph of Eleanor Brown dressed in a flight and carrying several items, including what appears to be a map. She is seen standing in a dirt road outside of a building. A handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "Eleanor McLernon (Brown) 1944".
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: S.A. Girl Gets WASP Wings]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about Eleanor Michel McLernon's graduation from the WASP flight school and Esther L. Stahr beginning her training for WASP flight school. The article includes close-up photographs of both women. There is part of a large advertisement on the back of the clipping.
Date: November 12, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Women Saved from Official Fate]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a brief article about how General Henry H. Arnold announced that the men were needed elsewhere and he needed more WASP.Congress discusses dissolving their division. On the back of the clipping, there are advertisements for Don Q rum, Durham-Enders razor kits, and a Carlton hotel.
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping photocopy: Would Halt Rise of Women Pilots]

Description: Photocopy of a newspaper clipping that includes an article about a report from the Civil Service Investigating Committee, advising the cutting of the WASP program. The grounds for this advice is to make way for excess male pilots in the Air Force. Other articles surround the article about cutting the WASP program, including some about politics and war. At the top of the photocopy, the page number of the article is handwritten.
Date: June 6, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Four WASP Trainees #2]

Description: Photograph of four WASP trainees seated in the back of a truck and looking at something in the distance. Written on the back of the photograph: "McCarty, McLernon, McGrath, Lytch 44-9."
Date: [1944-04..1944-12]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Graduation Announcement for WASP Class 44-W-9]

Description: Graduation announcement for WASP Class 44-W-9. The front cover includes a winged-diamond logo in the top-left quadrant and an embossed emblem of the Fifinella mascot in the lower-right quadrant. The text on the inside reads, "The 253rd Army Air Forces Base Unit announces the Graduation of Class 44-W-9 Monday, November 6, 1944, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas."
Date: 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Award for Civilian Service

Description: Cloth Army Air Forces Emblem seen attached to the bottom left corner of a certificate awarding the emblem to Eleanor McLernon for civilian service.
Date: December 20, 1944
Creator: Army Air Forces Pilot School
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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