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Naval Aircraft Factory: Flying boat: Patrol and search and rescue: April 1938 14 Lockheed Lodestar [11] Lockheed: Passenger aircraft Executive transport May 1940 8 NAF N3N-3 [12] Naval Aircraft Factory: Tandem Biplane: Trainer: December 1940 4 Vultee BT-13 Valiant [13] Vultee Aircraft: Tandem Monoplane: Trainer: 1942 11
Rosie the Riveter (Westinghouse poster, 1942). The image became iconic in the 1980s. American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.
The first classes with women graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, United States Coast Guard Academy, United States Military Academy, and the United States Naval Academy. Jean M. Butler is the first woman to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy; and later, thirteen other women graduate as part of class of 1980. [18]
Bonnie Tiburzi is the first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline, [153] as well as the first woman in the world to earn a Flight Engineer rating on a turbo-jet aircraft. [154] The United States Navy allows women to train as pilots. [155]
The USS Enterprise was America’s most decorated ship in WWII. An aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, shot down 911 enemy aircraft and sank 71 ships. ... [United States Navy] photo courtesy of ...
For aircraft designations under the U.S. Army Air Force/U.S. Air Force system or the post-1962 Tri-Service system—which includes U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aircraft currently in service—see List of military aircraft of the United States. For Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aircraft that did not receive formal designations ...
USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, including the Battle of ...
Elizabeth L. Gardner (1921 – December 22, 2011) was an American pilot during World War II who served as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She was one of the first American female military pilots [1] and the subject of a well-known photograph, sitting in the pilot's seat of a Martin B-26 Marauder.