Anne Chisholm Dessert Oliver : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1997.

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Anne Chisholm Dessert Oliver : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1997.

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Oliver discusses her childhood and the family's seed business and her youth in California where she worked and took flying lessons, eventually joining the WASP. She discusses her training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, trips to Dallas, and service at Mather and March Army Air Bases as well as her marriage and being the mother of four children.

Transcript: 30 leaves.

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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Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.)

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Oliver, Anne Chisholm Dessert.

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Native of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada and reared in Colorado and California. Took flying lessons and entered the WASP program, class 43-W-7. Served at Mather Army Air Base and March Army Air Base. Resigned May, 1944 and married Joe Oliver. Died December 5, 1998. From the description of Anne Chisholm Dessert Oliver : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1997. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 51055750 ...