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The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots [2] or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots [3]) was a civilian women pilots' organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees. Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots.
A/2C Frances E. Courtney furnished the bugle calls of taps and reveille for the 3452nd Student Squadron (WAF) at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in 1953. The Women's Air Force (WAF) was a program which served to bring women into limited roles in the United States Air Force.
Mildred Louise Hemmons Carter (1921–2011) was one of the first women to earn a pilot's license through the Civilian Pilot Training Program, making her the first black female pilot in Alabama. Though she was denied admission into the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, she was declared an official member of both later in life.
In addition, military officials confirmed the Air Force had pulled training about the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) − a paramilitary aviation organization of female pilots employed to ...
Lorraine Zillner Rodgers (September 11, 1920 – July 3, 2018) [1] was a Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) pilot for the United States Army Air Forces. [ 2 ] Background
Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins Silver (October 16, 1911 – disappeared October 26, 1944) was the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. [ 3 ] Early life
On February 18, 1943, Marion was selected by Jacqueline Cochran to enter Air Force training [3] and became a volunteer for the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program where she trained at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, for six months. [4] [2] At one point during the training program she became squadron commander for a junior class. [4]
Sara Payne Hayden (August 29, 1919 – March 15, 2019) was one of the women who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. An organization that had women ferrying airplanes to free up men to join the army. She was the Veterans Affairs chairwoman of the group as of 2006. [1] Hayden died in Plano, Texas in March 2019 at the age ...