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[Clipping: Elite Nurses]

Description: Newspaper clipping showing a photo of Charlyne Creger (third from left) with other nurses and stating that they have been awarded an academic scholarship from the Houston Florist Telegraph Delivery association.
Date: August 25, 1948
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, September 25, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing her friend Phyllis' travels, serving construction workers, opening a Army Air Force enlisted club, needing a toothbrush, going to a party and getting dinner, and news about her friend Marion. Typed on Red Cross stationary.
Date: September 25, 1945
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Photograph of 1st Platoon, Company A, 56th Armored Infantry Battalion]

Description: Photograph of a large group of soldiers posing together in front of a building. A typed caption below the photo says "Members of 1st Platoon, Company A, 56th Armored Infantry Battalion, pause for photo after capturing Burgau, Germany, April 25, 1945. Photo by Robert V. Oakes, Davenport, Iowa."
Date: April 25, 1945
Creator: Oakes, Robert V.
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photograph of Man on a Bicycle]

Description: Photograph of two soldiers posed in the street while a rider passes by them on a bicycle. Handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "First Sgt Earl Brunner and me -- Note the bicycle passing by -- Taken 25 April 45."
Date: April 25, 1945
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - January 25, 1945]

Description: Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including her enjoyment of the photos he sent and her pride over his Air Medals, dinner with Mammy, Jenny, and Emma, and Teddy, their dog, being sick due to what Catherine believes was a poisoning.
Date: January 25, 1945
Creator: Davis, Catherine Dawe
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Permission to Use Fifinella]

Description: Written permission from Walt Disney Productions for the Order of Fifinella to use the Fifinella insignia designed by Walt Disney, originally published in a WASP newsletter in 1945. A note to Charlyne can be seen at the bottom informing her of Bea Haydu's name change and phone number.
Date: January 25, 1945
Creator: Gunther B. Lessing
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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