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[Clipping: Winged Woman of Forgotten Past]

Description: Newspaper clippings of an article about Eleanor "Mickey" McLernon Brown, WASP. Includes two photographs of Mrs. Brown in her uniform and current photo.. On the back of the clipping are wedding and engagement announcements, as well as advertisements for catering companies.
Date: October 31, 1976
Creator: Broughton, Jamie
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: WASPS remember when]

Description: Newspaper clipping "Women flying on a wing and a prayer in West Texas" an article about WASP Eleanor Brown and Betty Shipley, The article includes details of the history of WASP, and a photograph of Brown and Shipley. There is an advertisement for a car and an article on bat-inspired myths on the back of the clipping.
Date: October 31, 1999
Creator: Wolff, Henry, Jr.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Scrapbook Page: Rüsselsheim - August 31, 1945]

Description: Photographs of Dan Melli and John and Joe Hurt in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The top four photographs show the men consorting with two very young girls identified as Hannala and Greshia. The picture on the top left has the two blonde children standing alone by a picket fence. The image to the top right has Melli kneeling between them and embracing them. The second image on the left has Joe Hurt embracing the girls. The second photo on the right shows both Hurt and Melli sitting with the girls on the… more
Date: August 31, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, December 31, 1943]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on December 31, 1943. He says it rains a lot, but his outfit has moved in to a building recently. Although it is crowded, they keep dry. He's been getting mail much more often in Italy than in North Africa.
Date: December 31, 1943
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[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.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, August 31, 1944]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on August 31, 1944, detailing a visit he's had from Robert [Evans] Jr. He details the things they talked about, and going to look at Robert's plane. He also mentions eating at the fields mess hall off of real American ware.
Date: August 31, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Selective Service System Local Board Memorandum No. 190-B - Extension of Veterans Assistance Program to former members of The United States Merchant Marine and [Public Law 87 78th Congress - An Act]]

Description: A memorandum from theNational Headquarters of the Selective Service System (Washington 25, D. C.), issued October 31, 1944. The memorandum (NO. 190-B) pertains to an extension of the Veterans Assistance Program to former members of the United States Merchant Marines.
Date: October 31, 1944
Creator: United States. Washington, D. C. National Headquarters Selective Service System.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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