Watson, Margaret Harper
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Native of New Castle, Pennsylvania. Graduated from Penn State. While at the university, she learned to fly and received her license. Invited by Jacqueline Cochran to join the WASP, class 44-W-1. Trained at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Tex. and had additional training at Officer Candidate School in Orlando, Fla. Assigned to Las Vegas Army Air Field in Nev. where she met and married Elmer Luther Watson, Sept. 7, 1944. Transferred to March Army Air Base, Riverside, Calif. Resigned from the WASP in Nov., 1944. Later moved to Dallas, Tex. with her husband.
From the description of Margaret Harper Watson : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1995. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 49630497
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Subjects:
- Women air pilots
- Women in aeronautics
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
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- United States (as recorded)
- Las Vegas Army Air Field (Nev.) (as recorded)
