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[Clipping: Rare Letter Explains Reason Why The Inventor Orville Wright Seldom Flew]

Newspaper clipping explaining the reason Orville Wright did not travel in airplanes and why he kept this a secret from the public.

Date: December 14, 1978

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Rosa C. Creger to Vernon Strickland, Dec. 9, 1978]

Letter from Rosa C. Creger to Vernon Strickland discussing WASP military status recognition.

Date: December 9, 1978

Creator: Creger, Rosa C.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with Frank H. King, December 12, 1978

Interview with Frank King, U.S. Marine Corps WWII veteran and survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. King talks about the sinking of the Houston (1942), his capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand (1944-1945), Phet Buri, Thailand (1945), and hi… more

Date: December 12, 1978

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & King, Frank H., 1921-2004

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

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[Clipping: Rare Letter Explains Reason Why The Inventor Orville Wright Seldom Flew]

[Letter from Rosa C. Creger to Vernon Strickland, Dec. 9, 1978]

Oral History Interview with Frank H. King, December 12, 1978