WASPs: Who Are They, Really?
Precious O'Kon
2025-04-15 12:37:09
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The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were the first women to fly U.S. military aircraft. WASP had its origins with a pair of exceptionally skilled and ambitious female flyers. Prior to the U.S. entry into World War II, Nancy Harkness Love, the youngest American woman to have earned her private pilot’s license until that time, had lobbied for the creation of a program that would allow female pilots to ferry warplanes from factories to air bases. At the same time, Jackie Cochran, one of the most-accomplished pilots of her era, demonstrated the feasibility of such an idea by flying a lend-lease bomber to England and organizing a group of female pilots for war transport service as part of the British Air Transport Auxiliary.
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