Inez Woodward Woods personal and family papers, 1970s-2000.

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Inez Woodward Woods personal and family papers, 1970s-2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79474829

Correspondence; photographs; records of education; dance recitals and work including employment with Curtiss Wright as librarian; post-war work with Defense Plant Corp. ferrying planes and work as executive pilot for Durasteel, Inc. The bulk of the collection pertains to Woods' experiences in the WASP during World War II and with the post-war organization. Most significant are the large group of letters written home to her family while in training at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, and while stationed at the Third Ferry Group at Romulus Army Air Base, Romulus, Michigan, 1943-1944. Includes 1944 letter from Hazel Ah Ying Lee. The collection also contains letters, photographs and news clippings of the Burt and Woodward families.

2.5 cubic feet.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233617

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

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Lee, Hazel Ah Ying, 1912-1944

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Hazel Ying Lee (1912-1944) was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military. Born in Portland, Oregon, Lee’s unquenchable thirst for flight began at age 19, when she first rode in a friend’s plane at an airshow. Within a year, she became one of the first Chinese American women to earn a pilot’s license, despite prevailing sexist and anti-Chinese norms. When Japan invaded China in 1933, Lee moved to China to join the Chinese Air Force but was rejected as a female pilot and forced...

Woods, Inez Woodward, 1917-

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Aviator and eductor. Born in St. Louis, Missouri. Served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) class of 43-W-4 in World War II. Graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, 1938. Active in many civic and aviation organizations. High School teacher who co-wrote curriculum for aeronautical science in high schools, first in California and later adopted nationally. From the description of Inez Woodward Woods personal and family papers, 1970s-2000. (Texas Woman's Uni...

Women Airford Service Pilots (U.S.)

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Romulus Army Air Base (Romulus, Michigan)

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Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Texas)

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Burt Family

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Woodward family.

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Residents of Fairfield County, S.C. From the description of Woodward family papers, 1770-1856. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 43557116 ...