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This photo of Betty H. Gillies, Commander of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), was taken at New Castle Army Air Base.

Army Air Forces Photo

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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.

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Betty Gillies, the commander of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), on the flight line with parachute and P-47.

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A portrait of Betty Miller, the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in 1963. Miller was also one of the women who accepted the invitation to undergo astronaut testing at the Lovelace Clinic. Unfortunately, Miller did not pass the tests.…

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Ohio's first licensed woman pilot Blanche Noyes poses in her flying attire.

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Ohio's first female licensed pilot Blanche Noyes is a guest of honor at a banquet.

Photo by Linell Vines.

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Aviatrix Blanche Noyes poses for a photograph is a Weiant Aircraft Sales Co. of Newark, Ohio aircraft.

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Blanche Noyes receives award at Salem College.

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Four aviatrices, Blanche Noyes, Helen Richey, Helen MacCloskey, and Louise Thaden, pose for a photo.

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Aviatrixes Blanche Noyes, Louise Smith, and Virginia Thompson, presenting the first Amelia Earhart Day Cover to President John F. Kennedy.

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Aviatrixes Blanche Stuart Scott and Clara Adams pause to have their picture taken at an event, most likely an air race. Scott was the first female test pilot and the first women to fly long distance in America. Adams was the first women to fly across…

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Jimmy Stewart, playing Charles Lindberg in the film "Spirit of St. Louis," talks to former female aviator and script writer Blanche Stuart Scott.

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Scriptwriter and the United States' first aviatrix Blanche Stuart Scott sits talking to actor and former Air Force Major General James Stewart on the set of "Spirit of St. Louis." Stewart played Charles Lindbergh in the film. Blanche was Jimmy's…

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Breyton and Bebe Barrow with powered model airplanes during an air meet in Waynesboro, Virginia.

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Cecil "Teddy" Kenyon is pictured holding her trophy after winning first prize in the 1933 National Champion Sportsman Aviation Event in Roosevelt Field, New York. Kenyon beat thirty-nine others, the majority men.

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Cecil "Teddy" Kenyon wearing a pilots uniform for a promotional photo for the 1939 movie, "Tail Spin."

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Claudia M. Oakes, pictured here in front of an on-display aircraft, was the curator of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D. C.

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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…

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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]…

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Codye Gwendolyn Clinkscales, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) from class 44-5, is seen saluting to her right.

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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"

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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,…

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Dot Lemon pictured in her North American AT-6 Racer.

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Elisabeth Borelli stands by her plane holding her helmet.

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Elise Owen, member of the Connecticut Civil Air Patrol, stands at attention for this photograph.
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