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Telegram inviting application to WASP training
Notification of acceptance into the WASP training program
Required Qualifications for acceptance into WASP program
Letter from Walt Disney with a design for the WASP insignia
Notification from General Hap Arnold of the end of the WASP program
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Honorable Discharge for Dora J. Dougherty
Letters and Articles Written by WASPS and WAFS
At the twilight's last gleaming
: Article written by Cornelia Fort, the first American woman pilot to die flying a military aircraft.
Excerpts from Madge Rutherford Minton's letters home
Excerpts From Mary Anna Martin Wyall's letters home
WASP Songbook: Songs Written and Sung by the WASPS
Zoot-Suits and Parachutes
I'm a Flying Wreck
WASP Song
B-29
Dora Dougherty's certificate of competence in the B-29
Excerpt from Maintenance Bulletin No. 19
Letter from Harry McKeown to Dora Dougherty Strother
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