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40 PBYs on Lake Worth

Description: Aerial photograph of forty airplanes floating on Lake Worth. According to Jeff Rhodes: "On 22 November 1940, Consolidated Aircraft Chief Test Pilot Bill Wheatley contacted newspaper publisher and Fort Worth, Texas, civic booster Amon G. Carter, explaining the company had been ordered to transfer 200 PBY Catalina patrol seaplanes (37 of the aircraft can be seen in this photo) from San Diego, California, to Britain and that the crews were in immediate need of a layover point. In just eight days, … more
Date: November 30, 1940
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.812158 -97.451343
Partner: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth

Meteorology for Pilots

Description: Textbook titled "Meteorology for Pilots" describing various aspects of weather and atmosphere and their effects on aviation. "S. D'Hooghe" is handwritten in the top right corner of the cover.
Date: September 1940
Creator: United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration. & Haynes, B. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASP Trainees Marching]

Description: Photograph of a group of WASP trainees marching in a single-file line on an airfield; a woman in the front is holding a flagpole with two flags on it and a row of airplanes is visible in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Man in Flight Suit]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified man wearing a flight suit and goggles on his head and holding a coil of rope standing on an airfield with a row of planes in the background; on the left another man wearing a flight suit and rucksack is visible.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Charlyne Creger in Flight Suit]

Description: Photograph of Charlyne Creger wearing a flight suit and goggles and carrying a rucksack posing in front of an airplane. There is a handwritten note under the photograph that reads "Charlyne Creger - P.T. 17 Women Air Force Service Pilot WWII."
Date: 1940~/1949~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Two WASPs with Plane]

Description: Photograph of two unidentified women wearing bomber jackets and goggles on their heads posing in front of an airplane; one of the women is standing and the other is sitting on the wing behind her. "Avenger Field" and other information is on the side of the plane.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Hall of Honor Article]

Description: Article entitled "Hall of Honor" about Col. Valin Woodward, USAF, who is being inducted into the Military Science Hall of Honor by the University of Texas at Arlington, which he attended when it was the North Texas Agricultural College.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Certificate of Proficiency, Frank W. Gardner]

Description: Certificate awarded to Frank W. Gardner. It reads: "Army Air Forces Combat Crew School, Tarrant Field, Texas. Pilot Transition Training. Certificate of Proficiency. This is to certify that Frank W. Gardner, 2nd Lt., A. C. has successfully completed a course of instruction in Pilot Training and Ground Technical Instruction on B-24 D type equipment and is awarded this certificate in testimony thereof." It is signed by Louis R. Hughes, Jr., Lt. Col., A. C., Director of Training, and James S. Stowe… more
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: Army Air Forces Combat Crew School
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum

[Photograph of Six Soldiers]

Description: Photograph of six men standing in front of a plane. The two men in the middle hold a paper between them, which all six soldiers are looking at. The men are identified as McFarley, Capt. Foster (age 32), Forbes, Lt. Woodward (barely age 21), Finneberg, and Foreman.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Arlington Historical Society’s Fielder House Museum
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