Flight Of The Wasp
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Sweetwater, Texas
Avenger Field
17-year-old Hershel Whittington.
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
homefront Army auxiliary
“an experiment”
ill-fitting khaki jumpsuits they called zoot suits
“some long and fancy words, some short and pungent words.
Jacqueline Cochran
1938’s cross-country Bendix flying competition.
Wonda-matic mascara
Col. William H. Turner
Nancy Harkness Love
to assemble a group of highly experienced women pilots to ferry planes
Caro Bayley was simply too small
“Little Gear”
hanging upside down by their heels to stretch themselves out
Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD)
One pilot, Marion Florsheim, wore bedroom slippers with pompoms.
beginning with reveille at 6 a.m., followed by Morse code, Link (flight simulation) training, and flight training
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