Strother, Dora Jean Dougherty, 1921-2013
Dora Dougherty Strother was born Nov. 27, 1921 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Strother became the sixth woman in the United States to earn an airline transport pilot license in 1940. She volunteered with W.A.S.P. (Women’s Air force Service Pilots) and was selected in the third class of WASP program (43-3) during World War II. She ferried planes, towed targets, and flew drones before she, along with Dorothea Johnson Moorman, was asked by Col. Paul Tibbets to learn how to fly the B-29 bomber in 1944. Strother was honorably discharged from the U.S. Air Force on December 20, 1944, having commanded 23 different aircraft.
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