Mardo Crane papers, 1942-1978.

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Mardo Crane papers, 1942-1978.

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Correspondence; biographical material; WASP records, including duty orders; records documenting Crane's activities in the U.S. Air Force Reserves, the Ninety-Nines, Power Puff Derby races; and personal records such as identification cards, medical records, news clippings, photographs, plaques, and artifacts. Also includes copies of individual flight records of Nancy Harkness Love. A small group of letters include correspondents Phoebe Omlie of the Ninety-Nines; Jacqueline Cochran, former executive director of the WASP, briefly responding to the Air Force's rescinding reserve commissions of female officers with dependent children; and aviator, Brunhilde Kempf Bradly of Germany. Photographs include images from Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Tex. while Crane was in training with the WASP, photographs of other WASP, a Power Puff race in which Crane participated, Amelia Earhart, and Nancy Harkness Love.

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Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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