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Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran and a Staggerwing Beech
Aviatrix Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in front of her plane that is adorned with a victory wreath.
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran in T-38
Aviatrix Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in the cockpit of a T-38 plane.
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran in the Cockpit
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) founder Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran salutes from the cockpit of a Seversky before taking off for a long distance record flight.
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran
Aviatrix Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran and Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic twin-jet trainer she flew 844.2 miles per hour to a new world's 15 kilometer speed record for women August 24, 1961 at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Photo from Northrop…
Photo from Northrop…
Wilhelmina Teerling in a B-25 T-635 Airplane
Wilhelmina Teerling , Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Class of '43-7, sitting in the cockpit of the large B-25 T-635 plane called "Wah-Hoo-Wah."
Wilhelmina Teerling in a BT-13A Airplane
Wilhelmina Teerling, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), smiles back at the camera from the cockpit of a BT-13A.
Wilhelmina Teerling's Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Class Photo
Wilhelmina Teerling poses for her class photo. She started her Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) training as a member of the class of 43-W-5 and graduated in the class of 43-W-7.
Wilhelmina Teerling in a PT-19 Airplane
Class of 1943 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Wilhelmina Teerling sits in a PT-19 at Avenger Field, WASP training grounds.
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Class of 1943
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were a group of female aviators that formed in September 1942. This pioneer group of women were employed to fly military aircraft during World War II under the direction of the United States Army Air Forces.…
B-25 Transition Training
In 1944 at Mather Field women gather for B-25 Transition Training. In the top row are Winifred Wood, Ana Morgan, Alaire Bennett, Katherine Joy Merratt, Pat Seares, Carolyn Clayton, Captain "Wimpy" Wimberly, Ellie Bryant, Kaddy Laudry, Aleta Grill,…
Katherine Irons and Winifred Wood
Katherine Irons and Winifred Wood wearing army issued flight suits at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas during their Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) training.
Codye Gwen Clinkscales
Codye Gwen Clinkscales, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), sits on an airplane wheel. Written on the back of the photograph, "This shot makes me look soo----- long. Its the perspective partly - anyway I can hope I don't look like…
Codye Gwen Clinkscales “Parachute Swagger”
Codye Gwen Clinkscales, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), wearing a flight suit and parachute. She describes how she appears on the back of the photograph: "This stance is known as the parachute swagger. After lugging fore [sic]…
Darlene Calkins, Edythe Carleton, and Codye Gwen Clinkscales
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Darlene Calkins, Edythe Carleton, and Codye Gwen Clinkscales posing for a photo. On the back of the photograph, a hand written message reads "We live in the wind and sand and our eyes are on the stars"
Five Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
Five Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) stand for a picture. They are labeled from left to right as Darlene Calkins, Codye Gwen Clinkscales, Nancy Bulkeley, Lucille A. Carey, and Edythe Carleton.
Personal Photograph of WASP
Codye Gwendolyn Clinkscales is pictured with three of her fellow Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP): Lillian Darlene Calkins (labeled by Codye as "my pal"), Lucille Carey, and Edythe Carleton.
Codye Gwendolyn Clinkscales Saluting
Codye Gwendolyn Clinkscales, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) from class 44-5, is seen saluting to her right.
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman's Graduation Picture
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman in her class graduation book. The picture was taken in September 1943 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas.
Yvonne “Pat” Pateman next to PT-19 Primary Trainer
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman, a trainee of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), stands by a Primary trainer, PT-19 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas in March 1943.
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Trainees
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) trainees from the class of 43-5 gather beside and on an airplane in Sweetwater, Texas. From left to right in the back row are Mary Ann Wetherby and Ellen Croxton. In the front row are Margaret Cox, Edna…
Yvonne “Pat” Pateman at Yokota Air Base
Captain Yvonne "Pat" Pateman, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), working among assigned troops at the Target Intelligence Center at the Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Japan during World War II.
Deedee Moorman, Colonel Tibbets, and Dora Dougherty
From left to right are Deedee Moorman, brigadier general Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr., and Dora Dougherty (Strother). Colonel Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, taught the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Moorman and Strother to fly the B-29,…
WASP at Goose Bay
Two Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) - Nancy Harkness Love and Betty Gillies - stand with men at Goose Bay.
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Graduates
Five Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) from the class of 44-W-10 stand with lieutenant Colonel Roy Ward C. O. after their graduation. The women (from left to right) are Dorothy Davis, Juanita Dreier (Hurlbutt), Margaret Eger (Temme), Patricia…
Ann Kenyon
Ann Keynon wearing a Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) uniform.