Kayla Nelson, graduate Public History major at FHSU, joins Hollie to discuss female aviation pioneer Jacqueline Cochran, who advocated that women had women pilots had the skills and abilities to fly for the war effort during WWII. She formed the Women Flying Training Detachment and eventually headed the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs).
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Selected Bibliography:
Cochran, Jacqueline. “American Women Pilots” 3 September 1943, Box 14, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Series, Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/cochran_BinderJJ.pdf.
Landdeck, Katherine Sharp. The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. New York: Crown, 2021.
Smith, Hannah. “The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII: A Tactical Necessity with Strategic Implications.” Air & Space Power History 69, no. 1 (2022). https://www.afhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Spring2022Issue_All-1.pdf.
Olds, Robert. “To all women holders of licenses,” 29 July 1941, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Series, Box 2, Subseries I: Pre-WASP Files, Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/cochran_BinderA.pdf.
War Department. “Jacqueline Cochran Named Director of Women’s Flying Training in Army,” 14 September 1942, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Series, Box 2, Subseries I: Pre-WASP Files, Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/cochran_BinderCC.pdf.
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