"Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls" Topic
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Tango01 | 20 Apr 2019 4:31 p.m. PST |
"In 1942, the United States was faced with a severe shortage of pilots, and leaders gambled on an experimental program to help fill the void: Train women to fly military aircraft so male pilots could be released for combat duty overseas. The group of female pilots was called the Women Airforce Service Pilots — WASP for short. In 1944, during the graduation ceremony for the last WASP training class, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Henry "Hap" Arnold, said that when the program started, he wasn't sure "whether a slip of a girl could fight the controls of a B-17 in heavy weather."…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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goragrad | 20 Apr 2019 9:41 p.m. PST |
Except women were flying long before WWII. |
Blutarski | 21 Apr 2019 7:14 a.m. PST |
Early in my business career, I had the good fortune to work alongside and make the acquaintance of a WASP. She ferried P51s from the USA to Great Britain (by way of Greenland and Iceland). A classy and obviously brave lady. B |
Vigilant | 21 Apr 2019 8:35 a.m. PST |
Followed the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) example, which had recruited female pilots some years earlier. |
Tango01 | 21 Apr 2019 3:21 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement Armand
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