Women Airforce Service Pilots facts for kids
The WASP badge
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 Elizabeth L. Gardner, WASP member, at the controls of a B-26 Marauder |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | August 5, 1943 |
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| Dissolved | December 20, 1944 |
| Employees | 1,830 accepted for training 1,074 completed training |
| Parent agency | United States Army Air Forces |
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots) was a civilian women pilots' organization.
Their members were United States federal civil service employees.
Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots. Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during World War II. The WASP and its members had no military standing.
Images for kids
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Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) pilots, March 7, 1943
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Hazel Ying Lee in a Link trainer, 1944
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Start of WASP training – class of 43-3 in January 1943. Photo by Lois Hailey.
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Avenger Field - WASP trainees with T-6 Texan
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Florene Watson shown preparing a P-51D-5NA for a ferry flight from a factory at Inglewood, California
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Helen W. Snapp, flying for the Low-target Squadron, at Camp Stewart, Georgia June 1944
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Madge Moore showing the WASP Congressional Gold Medal she received in Washington, D.C.
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Jackie Cochran (center) with WASP trainees
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Frances Green, Margaret (Peg) Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leaving their plane, "Pistol Packin' Mama"
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WASP members on the flight line at Laredo Army Air Field, Texas, January 22, 1944
See also
In Spanish: Women Airforce Service Pilots para niños
