Wasp Women Airforce Service Pilots Wwii Mugs

Fifinella put in appearances on WASP flight jackets and in many variations on the noses of bombers. One B-17G Flying Fortress, Fifinella (Serial #42-107030) of the 91st Bomb Group, was named after her. Fifinella was lost on August 13, 1944 on a bombing raid at Le Manoir, France. During the Korean War there was also a B-29 Superfortress (Serial #42-6569) of the 19th Bomb Group named Fifinella

Women Airforce Service Pilots Each WASP had a pilot's license, but was retrained to fly the Army way by the U.S. Army Air Forces at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas.[71] More than 25,000 women applied for the WASP, but only 1,830 were accepted into the program WASP recruits were required to complete the same primary, basic, and advanced training courses as male Army Air Corps pilots and many of them went on to specialized flight training

WW2 Fifinella WASP Women Airforce Service Pilots Patch

Women Airforce Service Pilots Each WASP had a pilot's license, but was retrained to fly the Army way by the U.S. Army Air Forces at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas.[71] More than 25,000 women applied for the WASP, but only 1,830 were accepted into the program WASP recruits were required to complete the same primary, basic, and advanced training courses as male Army Air Corps pilots and many of them went on to specialized flight training

This should grace the wall of any fan of the military, comics, aviation, and women's history - the cover of the very first book entirely about the least known veterans of World War II!

Women Airforce Service Pilots Each WASP had a pilot's license, but was retrained to fly the Army way by the U.S. Army Air Forces at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas.[71] More than 25,000 women applied for the WASP, but only 1,830 were accepted into the program WASP recruits were required to complete the same primary, basic, and advanced training courses as male Army Air Corps pilots and many of them went on to specialized flight training