WASPs

WASP Pilots Ready to Fly

World War II WASP pilots stand by as they await their flying assignments. Photo size: 800 × 878 Photo source: National Archives

The cover of the July 19, 1943 issue of LIFE Magazine featured WASP trainee pilot Shirley Slade sitting on the

An Army Air Forces General inspects the WASP troops during World War II. Photo size: 800 × 985 Photo source: National Archives

WAFS pilot Nancy (Harkness) Love checks out her B-17 “Queen Bee”. Photo size: 805 × 579 Photo source: National Archives Usage: Public

WAFS ferry pilots lined up on the airfield during WWII. WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron), along with the WFTD (Women’s

World War II Ferry pilot Florene Watson, WAF, warms up her P-51 Mustang aircraft. Photo size: 855 × 631 Photo source: National

World War II WASP pilot Ruth Dailey climbs into the cockpit of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Photo size: 858 × 663

After losing her husband just a year earlier when his P-38F Lightning aircraft crashed at Mills Field in San Mateo,

Mrs. Nancy Harkness Love, founder of the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). The WAFS was created in September 1942 within

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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