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[Clipping: Victory Day Celebration-Red Square]

Description: Newspaper clippings from a Russian newspaper, with a photograph of WASP members Charlene Creger, Marty Wyall, and Barbara Sazorsky on page 5. Along the photo is handwritten text reading, "Victory Day Celebration - Red Square," as well as the name of women in the photo.
Date: March 10, 1990
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Woman with Microphone]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman wearing a pink blouse with the WASP diamond wings pin on it speaking into a microphone with another woman in a WASP uniform visible on the left. In the background several artworks and decorative detail on the ceiling can be seen.
Date: 1990
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "Men Didn't Have to Prove They Could Fly, But Women Did"]

Description: Photocopy of an article about the death of Marvel Crosson, the sabotage of the Women's Air Derby, how it changed woman aviation history, the Ninety-Nines, female aviators, how they gained popularity, the Powder Puff Derby, female aviation achievments, female astronauts, and how the woman aviators are presently doing.
Date: unknown
Creator: Roberts, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Journal: Citizen Ambassador Program, World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots Delegation to the Soviet Union, May 3-16, 1990

Description: Journal documenting the trip several Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II took to Moscow, Russia in 1990 to meet with a group of Russian Night Witches who also served in the war. The book includes a biography section of each WASP that made the trip, letters from the WASP to Presidents Bush and Gorbachev, and a letter from the Soviets. Two loose leaflets included with the book are a bibliography of books about the WASP and a flyer from Texas A&M Press about a new book on WASP training a… more
Date: 1990-05-03/1990-05-24
Creator: Lazarsky, Barbara Ward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with Al Jowdy, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Jowdy. Jowdy enlisted in the Navy in July 1942 at the age of 15, with his parents’ consent. His first assignment was pulling bodies out of sunken ships in Pearl Harbor. At Guadalcanal, his ship was torpedoed. Due to the presence of enemy subs, he could not be rescued initially and spent two weeks floating in a raft. Then he joined a rescue effort to aid the USS Wasp (CV-7), only to be torpedoed again, spending another fou… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Creator: Jowdy, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Al Jowdy, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Jowdy. Jowdy enlisted in the Navy in July 1942 at the age of 15, with his parents’ consent. His first assignment was pulling bodies out of sunken ships in Pearl Harbor. At Guadalcanal, his ship was torpedoed. Due to the presence of enemy subs, he could not be rescued initially and spent two weeks floating in a raft. Then he joined a rescue effort to aid the USS Wasp (CV-7), only to be torpedoed again, spending another fou… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Jowdy, Al
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Correspondence between Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. and Tex Bradford - January 1945]

Description: Correspondence between Tex Bradford and Joseph Newton Pew Jr. discussing oil companies & Governor Dewey's political loss. In the first letter Mr. Pew Jr. speaks of Mr. Bradford's interest in Lowell Thomas, the possible treaty effects on oil companies, and the war in Greece. In the second letter, Mr. Tex Bradford cautions that Governor Dewey's statement of favoring a military alliance with only one European power cost him votes and his defeat.
Date: 1945-01-16/1945-01-22
Creator: Pew, Joseph Newton, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran

[Letter from Henry Walter to Alex Bradford - August 28, 1943]

Description: Letter from Alex Bradford to Henry Walter discussing Mr. Bradford's experiences abroad over the last three (3) years in the service of the Canadian Tunneling Company, the Royal Canadian Engineers, and the United States Air Force and Ordinance. Mr. Bradford also touches upon the current state of World War II and his journey's to the Middle East, North Africa, Canada, and Russia.
Date: August 28, 1943
Creator: Bradford, Alex
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran

[Clipping: Letter of Liberty]

Description: Newspaper clipping noting that the request for American newspapers by a Greek newspaper agency is a sign of freedom in postwar Europe. The clipping acknowledges that there are several European countries occupied by communist Russia.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran
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