World War II

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World War II
WASP
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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General Henry "Hap" Arnold
Jacqueline Cochran
www.airtransportaux.org
http//en.wikipedia.org
http//www.edwards.af.mil
Colonel William H. Tunner
(Tunner Personal Interview)
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(Gott 27)
Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS)
Formed in September of 1942 Led By Nancy Harkness
Love
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(Gott 32)
Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD)
Formed in September 1942 Led By Jacqueline Cochran
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Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
Officially Formed August 5, 1943 Led By
Jacqueline Cochran and Nancy Harkness Love
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Douglas A-20 Army Attack Bomber
(Gott 65)
(Gott 68)
P-47 Republic Thunderbolt
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Tunner Personal Interview
WASP In Action
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www.twu.edu
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(Tunner Personal Interview)
Margaret Ann Hamilton (Tunner)
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Margaret Ann Hamilton with her J-3 Piper Cub
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(Tunner Personal Interview)
319th 43-W2 Graduated May 28, 1943 3rd Ferrying
Group Romulus, Michigan
(Gott 123)
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Miss Hamilton (center) in a group photo
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http//www.wasp-wwii.org
Arnold Pinning Last WASP Wings
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(Gott 208)
21st Ferrying Group last graduating class of
WASP, December 20, 1944. The Program was
Disbanded Officially on this Day.
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Former WASP Bernice Falk Haydu In WASP Uniform
From 1944 Presents 25,000 Signatures On
Petitions To Push Forth A Bill To Give WASP
Military Status In September of 1977
(Keil Photo Section)
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Tunner Personal Interview
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Works Cited
Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation. New York
Random House, 1998
Gott, Kay. Women In Pursuit. United States 1993
Keil, Sally Van Wagenen. Those Wonderful Women
In Their Flying Machines. New York Rawson, Wade
Publishers, Inc., 1979
Texas Womans University. Womans Airforce
Service Pilots http//www.twu.edu/wasp/history.ht
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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_H._Arnold
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Works Cited (Continued)
Onkst, David H. Jacqueline Jackie
Cochran. http//www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/
Explorers_Record_Setters_and_ Daredevils/Cochran.h
tml
Notable Flygirls Womens Airforce Service
Pilots. http//www.edwards.af.mil/articles98/doc
s_html/splash/feb98/cover/wasp.html
http//www.wasp-wwii.org/wasp/wings.htm
http//www.skywriter.com/commlife/2003/1017/25pilo
t.asp
http//www.aiaa.org/sections/sh/events/archives/02
_10_17_Ringenberg.html