Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran and a Staggerwing Beech
Women air pilots -- United States
Aviatrix Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in front of her plane that is adorned with a victory wreath.
Photo Courtesy of Roger Hubbell
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1937
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 312
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran in T-38
Women air pilots -- United States
Aviatrix Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in the cockpit of a T-38 plane.
Photo Courtesy of Northrop International
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1953
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 604
Edwards Air Force Base, California
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran in the Cockpit
Women air pilots -- United States
Famous aviator
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.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Irving Rosenberg
ca. 1937
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 617
New York
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran
Women air pilots -- United States
Famous Aviator
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 International, A Division of Northrop Corporation, Beverly Hills, California, U. S. A.
IWASM
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
August 24, 1961
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 604
Edwards Air Force Base, California
Wilhelmina Teerling in a B-25 T-635 Airplane
Women air pilots -- United States
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."
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 510
Mather Field
Wilhelmina Teerling in a BT-13A Airplane
Women air pilots -- United States
Wilhelmina Teerling, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), smiles back at the camera from the cockpit of a BT-13A.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 509
Wilhelmina Teerling's Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Class Photo
Women air pilots -- United States
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.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 508
Sweetwater, Texas
Wilhelmina Teerling in a PT-19 Airplane
Women air pilots -- United States
Class of 1943 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Wilhelmina Teerling sits in a PT-19 at Avenger Field, WASP training grounds.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 507
Sweetwater, Texas
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Class of 1943
Women air pilots -- United States
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. Women from the WASP class of 43-W-7 gather for a photograph after a flight. They are (left to right) Nell Stevenson (Bright), Gertrude Tommy Tompkins (killed in service), Wilhelmina Teerling, Frances Thompson (Hirah), Jane Tallman, and Audrey Tardy.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 506
Texas
B-25 Transition Training
Women air pilots -- United States
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, Anne Dessert, and Lillian Loiraine. In the front row are Tommy Thompson, Dorothy Avery, Doris Le Fever, Sammy Chapin, Caro Bayley, "Mickey" Nell Stevenson, Wilhmma Teerling, and Betty Clark.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 505
Katherine Irons and Winifred Wood
Women air pilots -- United States
Katherine Irons and Winifred Wood wearing army issued flight suits at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas during their Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) training.
Photo Courtesy of Katherine "Kaddy" Landry
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. May 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 394
Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas
Codye Gwen Clinkscales
Women air pilots -- United States
WASP
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 that."
Photo Courtesy of Clink Linder
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 310
Texas
Codye Gwen Clinkscales “Parachute Swagger”
Women air pilots -- United States
WASP
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] of them around all day you can't straighten up. Do not the glove protruding from the knee pocket."
Photo Courtesy of Clink Linder
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 309
Texas
Darlene Calkins, Edythe Carleton, and Codye Gwen Clinkscales
Women air pilots -- United States
WASP
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"
Photo Courtesy of Clink Linder
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 308
Texas
Five Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
Women air pilots -- United States
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.
Photo Courtesy of Clink Linder
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 307
Texas
Personal Photograph of WASP
Women air pilots -- United States
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.
Photo Courtesy of Clink Linder
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 306
Texas
Codye Gwendolyn Clinkscales Saluting
Women air pilots -- United States
Codye Gwendolyn Clinkscales, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) from class 44-5, is seen saluting to her right.
Photo Courtesy of Clink Linder
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 305
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman's Graduation Picture
Women air pilots -- United States
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman in her class graduation book. The picture was taken in September 1943 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas.
Photo Courtesy of Yvonne Pateman
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. September 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 304
Sweetwater, Texas
Yvonne “Pat” Pateman next to PT-19 Primary Trainer
Women air pilots -- United States
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.
Photo Courtesy of Yvonne Pateman
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. March 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 303
Sweetwater, Texas
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Trainees
Women air pilots -- United States
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 Modisette, Yvonne "Pat" Pateman, and Dorothy Ebersbach.
Photo Courtesy of Yvonne Pateman
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. March 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 302
Sweetwater, Texas
Yvonne “Pat” Pateman at Yokota Air Base
Women air pilots -- United States
Military
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.
Photo Courtesy of Yvonne Pateman
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1959
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 301
Yokota, Japan
Deedee Moorman, Colonel Tibbets, and Dora Dougherty
Women air pilots -- United States
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, Ladybird. The B-29 was the same type of aircraft as the Enola Gay.
Photo Courtesy of Page Shamberger
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 300
WASP at Goose Bay
Women air pilots -- United States
Two Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) - Nancy Harkness Love and Betty Gillies - stand with men at Goose Bay.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca.1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 299
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Graduates
Women air pilots -- United States
WASP
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 Deiton (Coleman), and Joan Freter (Whalt).
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 298
Ann Kenyon
Women air pilots -- United States
Military
WASP
Ann Keynon wearing a Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) uniform.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 296