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Laredo Army Air Field's WASPs (Item)

Newspaper clipping, "Laredo Army Air Field's WASPs," from unidentified newspaper, circa 1940s. Articles notes that several Women Airforce Service Pilots are leaving their service at Laredo Army Air Field following the disbanding of the program. Includes a captioned photograph of the WASPs, including Dorothy Swal, Mildred Cladwell, Evelyn Fletcher, and Martha Swift. Other names have been cut off.

[Memorandum to Martha L. Smith from Captain Ralph De Geer, Laredo Army Air Field, December 20, 1944] (Item)

Memorandum to Martha L. Smith from Captain Ralph De Geer, Laredo Army Air Field, December 20, 1944. Awards Smith with the Emblem of Civilian Service for her WASP service during World War II. Award is attached to document. One (1) typed page.

Rosalie Gordon caught on landing gear (Item)

Photograph of Rosalie Gordon's rescue after her parachute became entangled in the landing gear of a Standard J-1 aircraft, Houston, Texas, March 1924. Gordon hangs beneath Clyde Pangborn and Milton Girten's plane while a second J-1, piloted by Freddy Lund and Tommy Thompson, attempts to reach her.Inscription on verso: "Rosalie Gordon caught on landing gear. Picture taken during rescue."

After the rescue (Item)

Photograph of (from left to right) Freddy Lund, Rosalie Gordon, Milton Girten, Tommy Thompson, and Clyde Pangborn standing next to a Standard J-1 aircraft, Houston, Texas, 1924. Image was taken after Gordon's rescue; during a parachute jump, her parachute became entangled in Pangborn's landing gear.Inscription on verso: "After the rescue. Lund, Rosalie, Girten, Thompson, Pang."