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WASP_01-2007-02-200

Description: Certificate addressed to Charlyne Creger from Governors' Camp in Masai Mara for ascent in an air ship balloon named the "Mara Rainbow".
Date: October 25, 1987
Creator: Mara Balloon Safaris
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971

Description: Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and … more
Date: January 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Clipping: The flying bug will get you]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about a man named Danny Kubecka, from Edna, Texas, reconstructing AT-6 planes he purchased from the South African Air Force. The article includes a photograph of Kubecka standing in front of an AT-6 plane in a hangar. Other articles with photographs are visible on the back of the clipping, including a articles about a judge election and Black History Month.
Date: unknown
Creator: Wolff, Henry, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his Parents, March 10, 1944]

Description: Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on March 10, 1944. He asks for more short bread, and tells his mother he will buy her a cameo from the market. The shops are required to lower their prices or the US army will make them off limits to their soldiers. Included in the envelope is a pass that gives permission for Todd Willis to be absent from his post from 1:00 to 4:30 to visit Casablanca.
Date: March 10, 1944
Creator: Willis, John Todd, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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