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[Clipping: Ferry Pilots Graduate]

Newspaper clipping of a photo titled "Ferry Pilots Graduate" showing several women wearing uniforms walking across a field. The photo's caption is titled "Women Extend Activities to the Air" and lists the date, May 27, and location of the graduation.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Transport Command Pilot]

Newspaper clipping discussing Cornelia Yerkes Colby's joining of the Army Air Forces Transport Command and includes a photo of her.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, 1943~]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, probably to her parents, discussing becoming a flight instructor, losing a photograph she was going to send to her father, carpooling, letters, weather, packages, and issues her brother Francis was having with the Navy.

Date: 1943~

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Cornelia Yerkes with Basic Trainer]

Photograph of Cornelia Yerkes Colby in a flight suit, standing behind the starboard wing of a basic trainer aircraft.

Date: 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASPs Marching]

Photograph of a formation of WASPs marching at Avenger Field. The guide-on carries a flag with a "B" on it. To the right is a male officer in a service uniform, and to his right in the background a line of parked advanced trainer aircraft.

Date: 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Major McConnel Asks Sweetwater People to Share 'Great Adventure']

Newspaper clippings of the article, "Major McConnel Asks Sweetwater People to Share 'Great Adventure'" which discusses the women's pilot training at Avenger's Field and urges the town residents to welcome the women trainees into the social and civic activities of Sweetwater.

Date: April 30, 1943

Creator: Chamberlain, L. F.

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: Little Girls, Big Ships, Women: Here Come the WAFS]

Newspaper clipping of two articles, "Women: Here Come the WAFS" and "Little Girls, Big Ships," which discuss women pilots' training and the second WAFS graduation. There is a photo of the WAFS graduates at Sweetwater, Texas which shows several women in uniform.

Date: June 7, 1943

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Bobby Willis, Elizabeth Mitchell, Betty Heinrich, and Cornelia Yerkes]

Photograph of four WASPs near an aircraft wing, all wearing flight suits. From left to right: Bobby Willis, Elizabeth Mitchell, Betty Heinrich, and Cornelia Yerkes.

Date: Summer 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, Summer 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her father discussing buying a bond, being grounded from maintenance, night flying, food, doing laundry, future WASP assignments, and busyness and noise on the base.

Date: Summer 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, Spring 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing a newspaper report on the Women's Flying Training Detachment, buying boots, going to a rodeo, her car, and recent letters.

Date: 1943-21~

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[43-W-4 Trainees in Formation]

Photograph of trainees with WASP class 43-W-4 standing in formation at Avenger Field. Behind them are two AT-6 trainers. A guide-on bearer carries a flag with a "B" on it.

Date: Summer 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, Spring 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her father discussing bonds, rumors about Army commissions, a check flight, and her car. At the top right of page one and the lower-back of page two are handwritten notes about finances. Typed on USO Seasons Greetings stationary.

Date: Spring 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, 1943?]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing her flight training, the hectic schedule and lack of leave/free time, Army regulations, and money.

Date: 1943-21~

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, Spring 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her father discussing the Vultee BT-13, her new instructor pilot, her car, and her schedule.

Date: Spring 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: To "One of Sweetwater's Own"]

Newspaper clipping of a photo and caption titled "One of Sweetwater's Own" depicting a class of women pilots standing on an air strip in formation during the graduation ceremony.

Date: June 4, 1943

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, July 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing her aunt's passing, her birthday, being grounded by weather, getting a tire on her car fixed, her flying hours, a wrist injury, uniforms, incorporating the WASP into the Army, and letting a flight instructor's son drive her car.

Date: July 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, Spring 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing flight training in the Vultee BT-13, working as mail orderly, and a problem with her wrist. Typed on USO Easter Greetings stationary.

Date: Spring 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Cornelia Yerkes and Three WASPs with Vultee BT-13]

Photograph of (from left to right) Cornelia Yerkes, Elizabeth Mitchell, Betty Heinrich and Bobby Willis standing in front of a Vultee BT-13.

Date: Summer 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Cornelia Yerkes, Three WASPs and Instructor with Vultee BT-13]

Photograph of (from left to right) Cornelia Yerkes, Elizabeth Mitchell, Don Clifford, Betty Heinrich and Bobby Willis standing in front of a Vultee BT-13.

Date: Summer 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Cornelia Yerkes, Three WASPs, and Instructor with Vultee BT-13]

Photograph of (from left to right) Cornelia Yerkes, Elizabeth Mitchell, Don Clifford, Betty Heinrich and Bobby Willis standing in front of a North American Vultee BT-13. Two more people can be seen walking on the right side behind the wing.

Date: Summer 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 5, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing recent correspondence, navigation training, and other work that student pilots have to do.

Date: June 5, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 5, 1943]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing a picture of her training class in a Sweetwater TX newspaper, a Chinese student pilot who got lost on a sortie, and her routine. Typed on folded stationary.

Date: June 5, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, April 6, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing flying in hot weather, sunburns, her hectic schedule, a measles outbreak, news about friends, check flights and washouts, and needing clothes shipped. Typed on USO Seasons Greetings stationary and the back of a graded physics quiz.

Date: April 6, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, March 20, 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her father thanking him for recent packages and discussing a solo flight, a check ride, taxiing at Avenger Field, calisthenics, weather, menial work, and money.

Date: March 20, 1943

Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

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[Clipping: Ferry Pilots Graduate]

[Clipping: Transport Command Pilot]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, 1943~]

[Cornelia Yerkes with Basic Trainer]

[WASPs Marching]

[Clipping: Major McConnel Asks Sweetwater People to Share 'Great Adventure']

[Clipping: Little Girls, Big Ships, Women: Here Come the WAFS]

[Bobby Willis, Elizabeth Mitchell, Betty Heinrich, and Cornelia Yerkes]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, Summer 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, Spring 1943?]

[43-W-4 Trainees in Formation]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, Spring 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, 1943?]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, Spring 1943]

[Clipping: To "One of Sweetwater's Own"]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, July 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, Spring 1943]

[Cornelia Yerkes and Three WASPs with Vultee BT-13]

[Cornelia Yerkes, Three WASPs and Instructor with Vultee BT-13]

[Cornelia Yerkes, Three WASPs, and Instructor with Vultee BT-13]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 5, 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 5, 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, April 6, 1943]

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, March 20, 1943]