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…
Captain Sharyn Emminger and First Officer Karen Squyres flying Short SD-3-30 for Hawaiian Airlines. They were the first all-female crew for US Hawaiian Airlines.
Pictured here is the wreckage of Marvel Crosson's plane. Her plane inexplicably failed under suspicious circumstances during her flight from Santa Monica to Cleveland in the 1929 Women's Air Derby. Crosson was just 25 at the time.
French pilot Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard in a flight suit getting into a small plane. She held international records for gliding. A paper attached to the bottom of the picture has a description typed in French.
French pilot Anna-Marie Peltier, pictured here with her arms crossed next to a plane, was a F-27 captain for the Air Intern in France. Attached to the photograph is a typed description in French.
The contestants of the 1966 Powder Puff Derby posing together on stage at a Jack Tar Hotel in Clearwater, Florida. The derby began in Seattle, Washington and ended in Clearwater, Florida, a total of 2875 miles. The contestants flew a Piper Cherokee…
At the Fairchild plant in Hagerstown, Maryland, the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) assemble to pick up PT-19s to ferry to Air Force bases. Dressed in winter flying gear they are briefed by Control Officer, Captain Frank. Standing next to…
This photo was taken of members of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in the alert room at the New Castle Army Air Base (NCAAB). From left to right:
Gertrude Tubbs,
Nancy Batson,
Betty Gillies (kneeling),
Teresa James,
Esther…
This photo was taken of members of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in the alert room at the New Castle Army Air Base (NCAAB).
From left to right:
Gertrude Meserve,
Dorothy Fulton,
Betty Gillies,
Nancy Batson,
and Esther Nelson.
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.
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…