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.
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.
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.
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.…
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 wearing army issued flight suits at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas during their Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) training.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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,…
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…