Anthony's speech on women's right to vote.
Most of these women served in the ATA during the war. Only three members returned to the U. This period led to the dramatic increase in activity for the U. Army Air Forcesbecause of obvious gaps in "manpower" that could be filled by women. After the attack on Pearl Harborto [13] compensate for the manpower demands of the military, the government encouraged women to enter the workforce to fill both industrial and service jobs supporting the war effort.
Tunner was in charge of acquiring civilian ferry pilots. Love, ATC staff officer, and his wife Nancy. Convinced of the feasibility of the program by Mrs.
Love, who had a Commercial Pilot Licensehe asked her to draw up a proposal, unaware that Arnold had shelved a similar proposal by Tunner's superior, Maj.
She used her association with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt to lobby Arnold to reject any plan that did not commission women, and set up an independent organization commanded by women. Ironically, Tunner's proposal called for commissioning women in the WAACsbut was turned down after review by Arnold.
WAFS[ edit ] By the mid-summer ofArnold was willing to consider the prior proposals seriously. George to Arnold, who was fully aware of it and gave it his blessing, after Mrs. Roosevelt had suggested a similar idea in a newspaper column.
Love, and went into operation on September 10, Soon, the Air Transport Command began using women to ferry planes from factory to airfields. WFTD[ edit ] Cochran returned to the United States on September 10,as the new organization was being publicized, and immediately confronted Arnold for an explanation.
With the publicity involved, the WAFS program could not be reversed, and so on September 15,Cochran's training proposal was also adopted.
Cochran and Love's squadrons were thereby established separately. Though rivals, the two programs and their respective leaders operated independently, and without acknowledgment of each other until the summer of When Cochran pushed aggressively for a single entity to control the activity of all women pilots.
Tunner, in particular, objected on the basis of differing qualification standards, and the absolute necessity of the ATC being able to control its own pilots. But Cochran's preeminence with Arnold prevailed, and in July he ordered the programs merged, with Cochran as director.
Love continued with the program as executive in charge of WASP ferrying operations. Photo by Lois Hailey.
The WASP training spanned 19 groups of women: They 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.
Hazel Ying Lee died following a runway collision, [14] but Maggie Gee survived.
They received 30 days of orientation to learn Army paperwork and to fly by military regulations. Afterward, they were assigned to various ferrying commands.
Unlike the WAFS, the women that reported to Houston did not have uniforms and had to find their own lodging.
Conditions included the wet, sticky, clay soil everywhere, and a scarcity of rest rooms, which made the potential for morale problems significant. To minimize this, the Fifinella Gazette was started. The first issue was published February 10, The first Houston class started with 38 women with a minimum of hours.
The second Houston class, started in December with a minimum of hours, but finished their training just in time to move to Sweetwater, Texas and become the first graduating class from Avenger Field on May 28, The third class completed their advanced training at Avenger Field and graduated July 3, Half of the fourth class of 76 women started their primary training in Houston on February 15,and then transferred to Sweetwater.
On March 7,the Houston classes incurred their first fatality. Margaret Oldenburg of W-4 and her instructor, Norris G. Morgan, crashed seven miles south of Houston and were killed on impact.
Each member had a pilot's license, but was retrained to fly the Army way by the U.The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), referred to by some as the Women's Army Service Pilots, was a civilian women pilots' organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees.
The WASP and its members had no military standing. It had two predecessors, the Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), both . Your customizable and curated collection of the best in trusted news plus coverage of sports, entertainment, money, weather, travel, health and lifestyle, combined with Outlook/Hotmail, Facebook.
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