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[Clipping: "The WASPS"]

Magazine clipping comparing how safe the WASP were compared to the entire United States, Virginia Moffett's service with the WASP, and the amount of hours they logged.

Date: January 1944

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Women of War]

Newspaper clipping of a section of the May 1990 issue of The Miami Herald. Articles about the WASPs service in World War 2, why Maria Muniz joined the Marine Corps, two nurses who served in the Vietnam War, and more are included.

Date: May 27, 1991

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Photograph of a Bomb Exploding on Muroc Lake, California]

Photograph of a bomb exploding in the Mojave Desert at Muroc Lake. The bomb has exploded in the center of the photograph as you can see by the puff of smoke and dust in the background.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: George Everill Pierce Family Photographs

[Photograph of a Maneuver Camp on Rogers Dry Lake]

Photograph of a maneuver camp set up in the Mojave Desert at Rogers Dry Lake in southern California. There are numerous tents set up in rows with men hanging out and talking to each other.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: George Everill Pierce Family Photographs

[Photograph of Joe Moore at the Muroc Lake Camp]

Photograph of Joe Moore standing in uniform outside of a tent at the camp on Muroc Lake. This lake is also known as Rogers Dry Lake, and it is located in the Mojave Desert; Moore's tent does not extend all the way to the ground, instead it stops around three feet from the ground.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: George Everill Pierce Family Photographs

[Photograph of a Camp on Muroc Lake, Mojave Desert]

Photograph of a camp located on Muroc Lake, also called Rogers Dry Lake, in the Mojave Desert. Edwards Air Force Base is also located nearby this camp. All of the tents in this camp are arranged in row after row; there's also a couple of cars driving through the camp.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: George Everill Pierce Family Photographs

[Photograph of a Bomb Exploding at Muroc Lake, California]

Photograph of a 300 pound bomb exploding around Muroc Lake, in the Mojave Desert. The camp at Muroc Lake is nearby but the bomb was exploded off in the distant background center of the photograph; the landscape in this area is very barren.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: George Everill Pierce Family Photographs

[Photograph of a Camp on Muroc Lake (Rogers Dry Lake)]

Photograph of a camp situated on Muroc Lake, also known as Rogers Dry Lake, in the Mojave Desert. There are tents and a few buildings in this camp, a water tower on the far right and what appears to be an air strip in the foreground.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: George Everill Pierce Family Photographs

[Photograph of a Camp at Rogers Dry Lake]

Aerial photograph of a camp at Muroc Lake, more commonly known as Rogers Dry Lake. This area is located near Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, just northeast of Los Angeles.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: George Everill Pierce Family Photographs

[Photograph of a Bomb Exploding in the Mojave Desert]

Photograph of a 300 pound bomb exploding on a target at the camp at Muroc Lake in the Mojave Desert. The landscape in this area is very barren as it is part of the Mojave Desert; the bomb has exploded in the distant background in the center of the photograph.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: George Everill Pierce Family Photographs

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[News Clip: Gustavo Barraza's video resume (El Paso)]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas.

Date: unknown

Duration: 59 minutes 57 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of the Desert Training Center in California]

Photograph of the Desert Training Center located in California. Ten planes are flying overhead, tanks are rolling towards the camp, and smaller jeeps are moving across the desert. In the right of the picture, artillery cannons work on their aim.

Date: [1940..1945]

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Change of Command]

Photograph of Camp Pendleton, California Headquarters, 1st Marine Division. Sgt Polo Castillo holds a Marine flag on parade grounds for a change of command.

Date: 1971

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Midwestern State University

[Marine Band plays with singer Ginny Simms]

Photograph of a performer Ginny Simms on a stage in a formal dress. Marine Band from Camp Pendleton, California plays with their instruments behind barriers with "Tenor Tones" written on them. Stephen Koenig, III, from Alvin, Texas is the violinist at lower left. This is an official USMD photograph by the Motion Picture Production Unit of Camp Joseph H. Pendleton.

Date: April 24, 1951

Creator: USMC Motion Picture Unit

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Private Collection of the Koenig Family

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - February 2, 1944]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife about the continuous rain and work left to do.

Date: February 2, 1944

Creator: Smith, Merrill

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - July 4, 1943]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife discussing life in his company and reminding her that he loves her.

Date: July 4, 1943

Creator: Smith, Merrill

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - January 21, 1944]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife discussing the completion of the showers in his area and that he is still working hard in the camp's construction.

Date: January 21, 1944

Creator: Smith, Merrill

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - June 25, 1943]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife informing her that Carroll did not get the job she was hoping for.

Date: June 25, 1943

Creator: Smith, Merrill

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Oral History Interview with John W. Wisecup, July 28, 1987

Interview with John Wisecup, a Marine Corps veteran and a survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Wisecup talks about the sinking of the Houston (1942), his capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), Changi Jail (1944-1945), and his liberation.

Date: July 28, 1987

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wisecup, John W.

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - February 6, 1944]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife discussing progress in his camp's construction and Sharon's temper.

Date: February 6, 1944

Creator: Smith, Merrill

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife - March 13, 1944]

Letter from Captain Merrill Smith to his wife discussing a letter he received from Betty, her enjoyment of married life, and his continual labor in constructing the camp.

Date: March 13, 1944

Creator: Smith, Merrill

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter to Alma Hiller, October 8, 1917]

Letter to Alma Hiller from her little cousin, "Hef", who writes about what it's like for him at Camp MacArthur, a military training base in Waco, Texas. The letter also discusses other family members, including a newborn baby in the family. The stationery letterhead has on its left and right side, respectively, an American flag image and a symbol that consists of a triangle within a circle, and it reads, "National War Work Council, Army and Navy Young Men's Christian Associations, 'with the col… more

Date: October 8, 1917

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from lt. I. H. Kempner, III to Harris, May 5, 1957]

Letter from Isaac H. Kempner, III to Harris L. Kempner discussing his finished application being sent to Harvard and Columbia and general points of interest regarding life in the military.

Date: May 5, 1957

Creator: Kempner, Isaac Herbert, III

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Rosenberg Library

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