WASP Pilot Cornelia Fort with her PT-19A Plane
Cornelia Fort (with a PT-19A) was a civilian instructor pilot at an airfield near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when the Japanese
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Author: Margie Bedell-Burke
Army Flight Nurse Brings Poppies and Wounded to England
2nd Lt Suella Bernard smiles and shakes hands with Lt Foster, head nurse, while 2nd Lt Mary Jane Brown of
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WASP Pilot Prepares Plane for Ferry Flight
WASP pilot Florene Watson preparing a P-51D-5NA for a ferry flight from the factory at Inglewood, California. Photo size: 1000
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Portrait of WWII Army Flight Nurse Reba Whittle
Lt. Reba Z. Whittle was an Army Air Force flight nurse who served during World War II. She became the
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WASP on Flightline with P-47 at Tyndall Field
WASP pilot Deanie Parrish in front of P-47 Thunderbolt on the flight line at Tyndall Field, Florida, circa 1943. Photo
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WASP Elizabeth Gardner Looks Out from Cockpit
WASP pilot Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner of Rockford, Illinois, takes a look around before sending her plane streaking down the
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WASP Pilots Leaving Their B-17 Flying Fortress
Frances Green, Margaret (Peg) Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leaving their plane, a B-17 Flying Fortress named “Pistol Packin’
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WASP Pilots and Their B-29 Ladybird and Crew
WASP Dora Dougherty, third from left in front of B-29 “Ladybird” with Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (left), Dorothea
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WASP Trainees and Their Instructor Pilot
WASP trainees and their instructor pilot. WASP assignments after graduation were diverse — as flight training instructors, glider tow pilots,
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Army Flight Nurse Checks a Patient on Flight Over India
A C-47 air evacuation team from the 803rd Air Evacuation Transportation Squadron, Lt. Pauline Curry and Tech. Sgt. Lewis Marker,
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