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Oral History Interview with Boyd K. Miller, January 21, 2003

Description: Interview with Boyd K. Miller, a draftsman and pilot during World War II. He discusses being drafted out of college and working as an artist and draftsman. Since he studied art in college, he worked on diagrams and charts. He then transferred to the Air Corps to become a pilot and trained in Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama, New York, Georgia, Florida and Texas.
Date: January 21, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Miller, Boyd K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[McLernon Autobiographic Sketch]

Description: Short autobiographic essay written by Eleanor McLernon on her life, family, career, and experience with the WASP program. A note paired with the paper reads, "Brief autobiographic sketch for the ALL-WASP lino graphic book Betty Turner currently working on (1999)".
Date: 1999
Creator: McLernon, Eleanor Michel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Museum Pamphlet and Letter From Isabel Van Lom, May 31, 1988]

Description: Letter from Isabel Madison Van Lom to her fellow WASP discussing the opening of The National Womens Military Museum and Research Center. The letter is written on a letter head from the museum that feature three women in uniform printed in the top left, and it includes a museum pamphlet discussing the new institute's features.
Date: May 31, 1988
Creator: Van Lom, Isabel Madison
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with Henry B. Stowers, May 25, 1973

Description: Interview with Henry B. Stowers, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Searight, Alabama. Stowers discusses his deployments to China in the late-1930s; duties of the Marines in China before the war; the surrender of the North China Marines in December, 1941; his experiences in internment at Woosung; internment at Kiangwang and working on the "Mount Fuji" project; and internment as coal mining labor at Hakodate.
Date: May 25, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stowers, Henry B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Bryghte D. Godbold, April 7, 1972

Description: Interview with Bryghte D. Godbold, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Coy, Alabama. A brigadier general at retirement after the war, Godbold discusses his time in the Marine Corps before the war, his duties on Wake Island shortly before December 7th, 1941, his experiences during the Battle of Wake, the Japanese landing and American surrender, his internment at Woosung and Kiang Wang in China, and his last internment at Ashibetsu (Hakodate #4) in Japan.
Date: April 7, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Godbold, Bryghte D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William G. Adair, May 27, 1971

Description: Interview with Major William G. Adair, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Birmingham, Alabama. Stationed in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded in December 1941, Adair was captured, survived the Bataan Death March, and interned at Cabanatuan before going to Osaka and Zentsuji, Japan for the remainder of the war.
Date: May 27, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Adair, William G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Clipping: At New Station]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a photograph of a young woman wearing a WASP uniform, with a brief description announcing her graduation from the WASP air school at Avenger Field. There are other articles on the back of the clipping, including more news about the military.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Frances Rohrer Sargent

Description: Information about WASP Frances Rohrer Sargent. Topics include her growing up, her stations while a WASP, and her life after the WASP disbanded. There is also a picture of Sargent about halfway down the page on the left.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

A History of the Women Airforce Service Pilots at Napier Field, Dothan, Alabama

Description: History report documenting the timeline of Women Airforce Service Pilots working at Napier Airfield from January 2, 1944 to Decmber 20, 1944, including various statistics about the group and an evaluation of their effectiveness.
Date: unknown
Creator: Highley, James P.; Paule, Eleanor V.; Gintzer, Edith E.; Batty, Jane & Carroll, Marjorie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Photocopied WASP Portraits]

Description: Photocopy of a page containing six Women Airforce Service Pilot portraits, all dressed in leather flight jackets with Fifinella patches. The women are Grace Putnam, Mary Ruth Rance, Virginia Raymond, Velma Saunders, Betty Scantland, and Martha Smith.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASP Group in Uniform #3]

Description: Photograph of eleven WASP in uniform posed in in two rows on a set of stone steps outside a building. The photo is adhered to mat poster board, and a typed paper note attached to the bottom reads, "WASP stationed at Napier Field, Dothan, Alabama. Eastern Flying Training Command".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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