Katherine Irons and Winifred Wood wearing army issued flight suits at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas during their Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) training.
Maryse Hilsz, a French pilot, is seen leaning against her Moth-Morane plane. On the side of the plane are the words "Paris" and "Saigon." She flew from the former to the later solo in 1930. In her earlier flying career, Hilsz was a parachute…
Nancy Hopkins Tier is shown in the cockpit of a plane during the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour. Tier was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines, was the only woman to participate in the Ford Reliability Tour, and served in the Connecticut Civil Air…
The crew of The American Nurse airplane, Dr. Leon Martocci-Pisculli (commander), Edna Newcomer (copilot), and William Ulbrich (pilot). They made an attempt in the aircraft The American Nurse to fly from New York to Rome in September 1932. After the…
A group of seven Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) walk side by side at the Fairchild plant in Hagerstown, Maryland. From left to right, those walking are:
Kathryn (Sis) Bernheim,
Gertrude Meserve,
Dorothy Fulton,
Betty Gillies,…
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, 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]…
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) 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.
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.
Aviatrix Betty Gillies holding a map and her daughter, Patt Gillies Astier, sitting on the wing. They were the first Mother-Daughter team to fly the Powder Puff Derby.
Pilot Nancy Harkness Love and Colonel Robert Norman Baker worked together for months, planning the formation of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). Here the two stand in front of an aerial map at the New Castle Army Air Base (NCAAP) in…
Nancy Harkness Love, Commanding Officer of the original Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS), as she supervised the check rides of the WAFS at New Castle Army Air Base, Wilmington, Delaware on September 22, 1942. The patch on her jacket was that…
Members of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), Betty Gillies, Evelyn Sharp, Barbara Erickson, and Helen Richards, at Camp Pickett in Blackstone, Virginia on December 2, 1942.