More than thirty years after the WASPs were disbanded in December 1944, the women pilots of World War II were shocked by a series of headlines in the paper. The U.S. Air Force announced that women ...

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They served as nurses dating back to World War I, but with some limited exceptions, women could not serve in other capacities ...

Air Force Times identified at least a dozen pages on the WWII-era Women's Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, and retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, ...

Ultimately the Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD), and the elite Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) were amalgamated into what would in June 1943 become the Women’s Airforce Service ...

Known as WASP, these women earned their wings by taking to the skies for non-combat military missions in World War II.