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[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, December 31, 1943]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing traveling to Wichita, being grounded by a snowstorm, picking up Cessnas for delivery, trying to find a Parker 51 pen, food, and recent correspondence. Written on 5th Ferrying Group stationary.
Date: December 31, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 11, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing delivering a plane and flying back to Dallas, chores, seeing For Whom the Bell Tolls, seeing Tito Guízar in concert, and flying to Camden, AK. Typed and written on Hutson Hotels stationary.
Date: October 11, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 7, 1943?]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing Blythe Field and Morton's Air Academy, flying over the desert, getting transportation to Dallas, finding a forgotten parachute, Mexican and Native American crafts, and meeting some flight cadets. Written on Hotel Paso del Norte (El Paso) stationary.
Date: 1943-10-07?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 7, 1943]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing being "on orders," making her first ferrying trip, being grounded by bad weather, flying a Piper Cub, an earache, chatting with an instructor pilot, and learning Spanish. Written on Braniff Airways stationary.
Date: September 7, 1943
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Photos of Roxie Crews in Germany]

Description: Photographs of Roxie Crews in Frankfurt, Germany. The photos on the first page are described as "Top left: Summfrour and me. Top right and bottom left: We brought our trailer “office” on to Frankfurt. Sometimes we got our gas in barrel easier to handle. We used the hanger for the cans out of the weather.". The photos on the second page are described "Left: Me and a large bicycle factory was here. Top right: Me and the masur, Summfrour, flags at half-mast the day Roosevelt died. Bottom right: Me… more
Date: 1943/1945
Creator: Partain, Douglas Wise
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Photos Taken in Belgiun, Germany and France]

Description: Photograph of Roxie Crews and several other veterans taken around World War II. The top left photo is of Mazur and Roxie, and the top right photo was the World War I cemetery near near Caen-Normandy. The bottom left photo shows Summfrour and Roxie on beetle tank-German ram with an electric motor on each track. It carried explosives. Top left photo was Roxie's first shower on Normandy. The description states "I needed it. Hadn’t showered in at least a week. We pumped water up through hose into a… more
Date: 1943/1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Roxie Crews Photos in France]

Description: Photographs of Roxie Crew when he visited France. The photos on the first page are described as "Left: Summfrour on arc of triumph. Top middle: me near the Eiffel Tower. Top right: French taxi Bottom right: tomb of the unknown solider at the arc of triumph. After war is over w are now back near Paris in Leon at R staging area waiting for orders. We got them. Go to Japan but after we got as far as Marseille France the war in Japan was over and we came home." and the photos on the second page are… more
Date: 1943/1945
Creator: Partain, Douglas Wise
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Angelina County History Center

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 22, 1943?]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing riding in a B-17, grounding from weather, horse riding, flying to San Bernardino and the Red Cross canteen there, ferrying planes, and making several stops on the return trip in a B-17. Written on Royal Palms Hotel (Palm Springs) stationary.
Date: 1943-11-22?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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