Clark, Betty R.

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Clark was an x-ray technician and worked in several hospitals before learning to fly. Graduated from the WASP, class of 43-W-7, training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. Service assignments included: Nathan Field, Sacramento, California where she learned to fly the B-25; Chico Army Air Field, California; and March Army Air Base, Riverside. Following WASP deactivation in 1944, Clark went into the crop dusting business in Colorado and later Nicaragua, eventually becoming co-owner of an airport in Rifle, Colorado. Retired to Grand Junction, Colorado. Died August, 1999.

From the description of Betty J. Clark : an oral history / interviewed by Jean Yale, 1998. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 50637149

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