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Women Air Force Pilots

Women Air Force Pilots . Carly Henley Patton. Their Purpose. To deliver planes from, factories to military bases To be a WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) a women must be 21 to 35 , have a minimum of 500 hours of flying time, a commercial license, and a 250 horsepower

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Women Air Force Pilots

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  1. Women Air Force Pilots Carly Henley Patton

  2. Their Purpose • To deliver planes from, factories to military bases • To be a WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) a women must be 21 to 35 , have a minimum of 500 hours of flying time, a commercial license, and a 250 horsepower • Started off as an experimental program but to have more male pilots released for combat duty overseas. • http://www.army.mil/women/history/pilots.html

  3. Daily Life • Everyday was a risk for their own lives • Nearly 350,000 women volunteered, and served in uniform as a: Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC); The Navy’s Women Reserve (WAVES); the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve; the Navy Nurse corps; and the Women’s Airforce Service Pilot (WASPS) • Took office and clerical jobs, drove trucks , repaired airplanes, worked as laboratory technicians, rigged parachutes, radio operators and many more jobs ..

  4. Timeline • 1942 - Creation of the WAAC • Congress approves the bill to create the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. • Oveta Culp Hobby is sworn in as the first director. • The first WAAC training schools open. • A Top Secret project called "Battery X" was established utilizing women to crew Antiaircraft Artillery in the Military District of Washington. • 1943 - WAAC Renamed WAC • The 149th WAAC Post Headquarters Company becomes the first WAAC unit to serve overseas at Allied Forces HQ. • Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers introduces legislation to change the name of the WAAC to Women's Army Corps and drop the "auxiliary" affiliation. • WAAC is officially changed to the WAC. • WAC Special Troops are deployed overseas for duty in Italy. • Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) established. • 1944 - 5,000 Women Serve in Pacific • More than 5,000 women serve in the Southwest Pacific region from 1944 - 1955. • Army nurses land at Normandy four days after D-Day.

  5. Artifacts • These artifacts show the relevant time period it would be like to have a license for being a flying pilot, and records they keep

  6. Documents • These include books that were based on true experiences by a women air force pilot, and influenced other women by propaganda

  7. Newspaper • Here below are newspaper clips that are of women who were the first in the army and all of the sexual comments and prejudice that they received

  8. Works Cited • http://www.army.mil/women/history/pilots.html • http://www.npr.org/2010/03/09/123773525/female-wwii-pilots-the-original-fly-girls • http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/at-a-glance/women-in-ww2.html

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