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[Clipping: Scarsdale Home News]

Description: Newspaper clipping from No. 11 of the Scarsdale Home News. The main article is titled "A Family Affair," which discusses the swearing in of Dorothy Jean Leslie as a member of the WAVES or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Other articles center around the local weather phenomenon, post-war plans, the returns of local veterans, wedding announcements, and obituaries.
Date: October 7, 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
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 to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, October 7, 1943?]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing flying into Palm Springs, dinner there, visits with friends, buying a gift for her father in Juarez, future work ferrying Steerman aircraft, and an Army captain who took photographs of her and others on a flight from Phoenix.
Date: 1943-10-07?
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, October 7, 1944]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on October 7, 1944, explaining that they didn't spend their Rest Camp resting because they were in Rome and went to see all the sights instead. He apologizes for not being able to take many pictures because it was cloudy, but promises to send the ones he bought instead and to send a longer letter later detailing his adventures.
Date: October 7, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Regional Aeronautical Chart, 2M

Description: Aeronautical map of Montana and part of its surrounding region, showing cities, topographical features, radio frequency ranges and other various aeronautical symbols for flight training and navigation. Scale 1:1,000,000.
Date: October 7, 1943
Creator: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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