Nancy Harkness Love

Nancy Harkness Love in a Fairchild PT-19

Mrs. Nancy Harkness Love, 28, director of the U.S. Women’s Auxiliary Ferry Squadron, adjusts her helmet in the cockpit of

Nancy Love, pilot (left), and Betty (Huyler) Gillies, co-pilot, the first women to fly the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy

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

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