Dorothy Hoover Collection
Content Description
This collection includes 5 June 2000 oral history transcript; Newspaper articles circa 1940's and 1977; copy of Basic Training Squadron 2 Flights A and B Class 1944; official national aeronautic associaton publication- airplane specs, 1949; original WASP songbook; original fundamentals of air fighting booklet; photographs of Dorothy posing in and on airplanes in her WASP uniform circa 1943; Federal Aviation Regulations booklets, 1963; Basic Flying Manual, undated; Flight Instructors Manual, Airplane Manual 1940; Air Regulations and Powerplant Manual, 1942; Instrument Flying Manuals 1943,1944; Air Force Official paperwork, 1943-1944; Civil Aeronautics Administrative paperwork, 1949-1952; Pilot Lo,g 1940-43; WASP patches; WASP logo; Civil Air Patrol bracelet and pilot wings pin; WASP newsletter 1943-1976; Artifact Box 1 contains a small frame with WWII military service medals and ribbons with name tag and pilot pins.
Dates
- 1940-1976
Creator
- Hoover, Dorothy (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Biographical / Historical
Dorothy "Dot" Post Hoover (1917-2015), of Asheville, North Carolina, served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) from 1943 until 1944.
Dorothy "Dot" Post Hoover was born in Asheville, North Carolina. She attended Lee Edwards High School and then Biltmore Junior College (now the University of North Carolina at Asheville), graduating in 1934. After a year of business school, Hoover went to work as a legal stenographer.
She married in 1938 and the couple moved to High Point, North Carolina, in 1940, and then to Greenville, South Carolina. There Hoover learned to fly airplanes with the Civilian Pilot Training Program at Furman University. Her husband was called to active duty in 1941, and the couple lived outside Camp Davis, North Carolina, until he was sent overseas in February 1942.
Hoover then returned to Asheville and worked in the bookkeeping department of the Thomas Farmers' Federation. She was sent by the Federation to be a clerk for A.C. Reynolds in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hoover enlisted in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in 1943 and was sent to Sweetwater, Texas, for six months of basic training. In October 1943 she was assigned to training service at South Plains Air Force Base, Lubbock, Texas. There she flew a P-60 that towed military gliders used for glider pilot training.
In summer 1944, she was transferred to Eagle Pass Air Force Base, Texas, where she towed targets for aerial gunnery practice. She was then sent to Basic Instructors' School at Randolph Field in San Antonio, Texas. After completing the program, she returned to Eagle Pass AFB. She was discharged from the WASP in December of 1944 when the branch was disbanded.
Hoover returned to Asheville and worked briefly at the Farmers Federation. She later worked for the Civil Air Patrol and the Air Force Communications Agency headquarters in Asheville before becoming a court reporter in the mid-1960s. Hoover retired from the court system in 1978. She died in Asheville, North Carolina on 15 March 2015.
Extent
1.05 Linear Feet (Artifact box: 11 Folders. Document Folder: 5 Folders. )
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into the following series: manuals 1940-1963, pilot log, WASPS papers, documents, patches and pins, WASPS newsletters, oral history transcription, scanned newspaper articles, photographs, publications.
Condition Description
The condition is fair.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy, Victoria Hinshaw.
- United States Air Force - Women
- United States. Air Force
- United States. Air Force -- Interviews
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Armed Forces -- United States -- Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs
- Title
- Dorothy Hoover Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy, Victoria Hinshaw
- Date
- 2022 June, 2022 October
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository