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

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

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 ..

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.

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

DOCUMENTS These include books that were based on

true experiences by a women air force pilot, and influenced other women by propaganda

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

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