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[Clipping: The Avenger Girls Pulled Plenty of Leather When Their Horses Dashed From Snyder Arena]

Description: Newspaper clipping discussing WASP trainees at Avenger Field participating in a rodeo, featuring an image of a class marching on the tarmac with trainer aircraft parked in the background. On the back is an excerpt discussing the Allied bombing of Vatican City, a picture of Nora and Frank Bradney on horseback, opposition to a Texas "maternity aid" plan, and an advertisement for a supplement intended to relieve period cramps.
Date: 1943-11?
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: WASPs Celebrate First Birthday November 12th]

Description: Newspaper clipping with an article about Mrs. Yount speaking at a WASP graduation, the celebration of their first birthday, their attendance to a local movie premier. There is red text over the clipping that reads: "WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS WWII 50TH ANNIVERSARY AVENGER FIELD SWEETWATER, TX. 22 MAY 1993".
Date: November 19, 1943
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Company A of the 119th Engineers on a Bailey Bridge]

Description: Photograph of many uniformed members of the 119th Armored Engineer Battalion Company A standing on a bailey bridge. Most of the men are gathered to the right of a railing that is being straddled by a lone soldier. A guidon bearing the image of a fortress, "119," and "A" is held aloft in the background.
Date: 1943
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Cornelia Yerkes with DC-3]

Description: Photograph of Cornelia Yerkes standing next to the port engine of a Douglas DC-3 at Love Field. She is wearing her uniform and posing with a bag in her left hand, with her right hand raised to her head as she looks off into the distance.
Date: [1943-09..1944-12]
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Denial of Fraud by Joe B. Plosser and Charles A. Prince]

Description: Letter of denial regarding the litigation against the Plosser-Prince Air Academy for fraud by the United States in which Joe B. Plosser and Charles A. Prince assert their innocence and claim to have had no involvement in the fraudulent actions of Victor J. Nelson.
Date: 1943~
Creator: Plosser, Joseph B. & Prince, Charles A.
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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