318th Army Air Force Field Training Detachment 43-W-6, 43-W-7 Yearbook

Title

318th Army Air Force Field Training Detachment 43-W-6, 43-W-7 Yearbook

Subject

Armed Forces--Mascots; United States. Army Air Forces; Walt Disney Company; Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.); World War, 1939-1945--Women.; Yearbooks

Description

Hard bound yearbook for the 43-W-6 and 43-W-7 graduating WASP classes from Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. The cover of the yearbook is of a taupe color and features Fifinella, the mascot of the WASP program in white. Fifinella was a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney for a proposed film based in Roald Dahl's book The Gremlins. The WASPs were granted the rights to use this image as their mascot by the Walt Disney Company.

Source

Elizabeth McGeorge Sullivan (1938) Papers

Publisher

C. Elizabeth Boyd '33 Archives, Wilson College

Date

1943

Rights

For information on copyright or permissions for this collection, contact the C. Elizabeth Boyd '33 Archives.

Format

Image/jpeg

Language

English

Type

Image

Identifier

16387597

Files

16387597-318thYearbook.jpg

Citation

“318th Army Air Force Field Training Detachment 43-W-6, 43-W-7 Yearbook,” Hankey Center for the History of Women's Education, accessed November 21, 2024, https://exhibits.wilson.edu/items/show/757.