SWEETWATER, Texas — The Sweetwater WASP Museum is holding its annual homecoming to honor the female pilots that flew in World War II. The WASP (Women’s Air Force Service Pilots) were a group of ...
The first women in history to fly America’s military aircraft, WASP were stationed at 120 Army Air Bases and Army Air Fields all over the nation after their seven-month training regimens. The female ...
Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Marilyn Mong of Leetonia holds a photograph of four Women Airforce Service Pilots before a lecture she gave Saturday in the old St. James Episcopal Church in Boardman ...
WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- The fog rolled in from Santa Monica Bay just after noon on Oct. 26, 1944, just three hours before Gertrude ...
The first sentence in Elaine Harmon’s handwritten will detailed her desire that her ashes be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, alongside the men and women she served with during World War II.
LOS ANGELES — For so many years, their service was largely forgotten. In the midst of World War II, with legions of male pilots overseas, the 1,102 young women constituting the Women Airforce Service ...
As the DEI fallout ensues, the Air Force has removed videos used during basic training that highlight historic Black and female pilots. The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its ...
The Air Force has removed training courses featuring videos of the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to comply with the Trump administration's directives on diversity, equity, ...
The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — female World War ...
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