women pilots

WAFS Pilots Nancy Love and Betty Gillies

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

Pictured here in 1943, Evelyn Greenblatt Howren was a pioneering American aviator who helped organize the first all-woman squadron of

Swinging down along the ramp at the AAF’s Training Command’s Advanced single engine pilot school at Foster Field, Victoria, Texas,

WASP Mary Baldwin Hillberg cuts the throttles after “revving” it up for a cross country take-off as co-pilot Betty Ferrol

Four WASP delivery pilots in front of a TB-25 Mitchell Trainer at Turner Army Airfield, 1944. Photo size: 877 × 650

Jacqueline Cochran, founder of Women’s Flying Training Detachment, inspects young WASP trainees outside. Photo size: 800 × 797 Photo source: U.S.

Four WASP pilots walk among a large group of airplanes on an unidentified airfield. Photo size: 1800 × 1236 Photo source:

Three WASP pilots returning from a mission, dressed in cold weather flight gear. Photo size: 1800 × 1385 Photo source: U.S.

Group of Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) on the airfield. Photo size: 1800 × 1418 Photo source: U.S. Air Force Usage:

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