WAFS – Women of World War II

WAFS and WASP Pilot Gertrude Meserve

Before joining WAFS, Gertrude Meserve was an instructor pilot who taught hundreds of students at Harvard and MIT. The Women’s

Florene Miller Watson boarding an AT-6 Texan at Love Field in February 1943. During her time as a WASP, she

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

Pictured here in 1943, Nancy Harkness Love founded the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) which used women to ferry planes

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

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