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[Clipping: Secret role of women fliers recalled]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP being hidden from public knowledge, including the U.S. Department of Defense withholding veteran status from the women who served in WWII. The article includes a photograph of a group of young women in jumpsuits walking away from a small propeller plane. On the back of the clipping is a large advertisement for a sale, and part of an article about Fort Concho.
Date: November 24, 1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Golden moment here at last for war pilots]

Description: Newspaper clippings of an article about WASP members being honored with the Congressional Gold Medal for their service in WWII. The article focuses primarily on a member named Susie Bain, including two photographs. On the back of the first clipping are advertisements, and on the back of the second clipping are articles about Texas politics and the death penalty.
Date: March 10, 2010
Creator: Rosales, Christina
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[School of Military Aeronautics Band]

Description: Copy print of a marching band facing the front of the photo and standing on a street with their cased instruments in front of a formation of students facing the right side of the image. Both the band members and the students are wearing uniforms, and standing in lines at attention, with leaders in front of each group. In the foreground, a dog is standing in front of the band and an automobile is partially visible; in the background, several large buildings are visible, including a church or c… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Ellison Photo Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Miss Ziggy Hunter: Her Accomplishments in the Field of Aviation

Description: A compilation of the many achievements of Women Airforce Service Pilot flight instructor, Ziggy Hunter, as a pioneer in aviation. Notes on the cover page indicate that the author, Nettie Moore, was a WASP control tower operator and that her attempts to gain national honor for Hunter have gone unsuccessful as of 1980.
Date: May 10, 1975
Creator: More, Nettie D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Women, Wings and War]

Description: Photocopy of an article discussing Margaret Harper's experience serving in the WASP, duties she was given, the discontinuation of the WASP, and sexual discrimination against female veterans. Another article about the history and preservation of WASP history in Texas Woman's University is also included.
Date: July 18, 1989
Creator: Porter, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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[News Clip: AF jets set new England to use record]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a group of U.S. Air Force jets landing at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, after setting new flight time records between the Austin base and a base in England.
Date: August 17, 1955
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: AF jets set new England to use record]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a group of U.S. Air Force jets landing at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, after setting new flight time records between the Austin base and a base in England.
Date: August 17, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Del Valle Air Base

Description: Photograph of men and women in uniform standing in front of an automobile and an airplane -- "Turkey Bird." Del Valle Air Base became Bergstrom Air Force Base.
Date: January 6, 1943
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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