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[Flag Certificate]

Description: Document certifying that a flag presented to Mickey Brown by the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau was flown by the Texas State Capitol on September 16, 2008 in honor of the WASP 2008 reunion.
Date: September 17, 2008
Creator: State of Texas House of Representatives
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Fly Girls of WWII

Description: A brochure from Wings Across American advertising the "Fly Girls of WWII" exhibit on display at the Baylor University Mayborn Museum Complex, including photos of the exhibit and the faces of dozens of WASP veterans.
Date: [..2008-04-01]
Creator: Wings Across America
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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Oral History Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, January 21, 2008

Description: Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, an Armed Guard in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses lying about his age in order to join the navy at 15 and his experience in boot camp. He served as an Armed Guard on merchant ships that transported supplies across the Atlantic and remembers being in London while German bombers flew overhead. He transported German prisoners out of Marseilles and Naples shortly after the liberation of those cities. He remembers going to Times Square upon hearing … more
Date: January 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & McDuffie, Glenn E.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Paul Jackson, April 10, 2008

Description: Interview with Paul Jackson, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He discusses his time in boot camp at Camp Pendleton and his combat experiences in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Date: April 10, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Roberts, Virginia & Jackson, Paul
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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