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Auto Ordnance 1911 .45 FLY GIRLS Special!!!

Thu, Jan 28

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Auto Ordnance 1911 .45 FLY GIRLS Special!!!
Auto Ordnance 1911 .45 FLY GIRLS Special!!!

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Jan 28, 2021, 5:03 PM – 5:08 PM

Friends of Roberts Ridge VFD Facebook LIVE

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Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls

In 1942, the United States was faced with a severe shortage of pilots, and leaders gambled on an experimental program to help fill the void: Train women to fly military aircraft so male pilots could be released for combat duty overseas.

The group of female pilots was called the Women Airforce Service Pilots — WASP for short. In 1944, during the graduation ceremony for the last WASP training class, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Henry "Hap" Arnold, said that when the program started, he wasn't sure "whether a slip of a girl could fight the controls of a B-17 in heavy weather."

"Now in 1944, it is on the record that women can fly as well as men," Arnold said.

A few more than 1,100 young women, all civilian volunteers, flew almost every type of military aircraft — including…

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