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[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

[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

[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

[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
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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

Award for Civilian Service

Description: Cloth Army Air Forces Emblem seen attached to the bottom left corner of a certificate awarding the emblem to Eleanor McLernon for civilian service.
Date: December 20, 1944
Creator: Army Air Forces Pilot School
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Eleven WASP at Napier Field]

Description: Group photograph of eleven WASP standing outside of a building at Napier Field. Each woman is wearing a beret, a dark jacket, a light-colored shirt, a dark tie, a dark skirt, and dark shoes. The note in the bottom right corner of the photograph says, "W.A.S.P., AAFEFTC, Napier Field, Dothan, Alabama, Dec. 1944."
Date: December 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

WASP Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 1,1944

Description: Partial WASP newsletter from a base in Maxwell Field, Alabama, announcing the death of a WASP Staff Executive, Katherine Dussaq, who was a key member in planning reemployment possibilities for WASP after deactivation. Dussaq perished in a plane crash when her AT-6 went down on her way to Cincinnati. Attached after the newsletter is a pilot's log page belonging to Betty Jo Streff.
Date: December 1, 1944
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Graded Test Answer Sheet For Horace Bartlett]

Description: Filled in and graded answer sheet for a test taken by Horace E. Bartlett, along with a blank student progress sheet, a book order form, and a list of books available to purchase from Maxwell Air Force Base. These are paired with an envelope addressed to Bartlett in Sweetwater, Texas.
Date: October 1, 1957
Creator: Bartlett, Horace E.
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
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