Fly Girls
The story of the WASPs, Women Air Force Service Pilots.
Radio Diaries · Radio Diaries
May 3, 201825m 47s
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Show Notes
In the early 1940s, the U.S. Air Force faced a dilemma. Thousands of new airplanes were coming off assembly lines and needed to be delivered to military bases nationwide, yet most of America’s pilots were overseas fighting the war. To solve the problem, the government launched an experimental program to train women pilots. They were known as the WASPs, the Women Air Force Service Pilots.
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