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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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,…
Five uniformed women of the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) at No. 5 Ferry Pool in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The women are (from left to right) First Officer Lettice Curtis, First Officer Jenny Broad, First Officer Audrey Sale-Barker,…
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…
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…
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.…
A smiling Ruth Nichols, well-known female pilot, stands dressed in a white flight jumpsuit with her arm over the back end of a plane. This early plane has either the name or the advertisement "Wings for Peace" scrolled across it.