Collection, 1940-1944.

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Collection, 1940-1944.

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Yearbooks, personal recollections, photographs, insignia, flight logs, correspondence, uniforms, news clippings, and audio and video materials of six WASP (Women's Airforce Service Pilots) members during World War II: Dora Dougherty Strother, Margaret Harper Watson, Marion Stegeman Hodgson, Faith Buchner Richards, Rene Nielsen, and Mildred Dalrymple.

6.75 linear ft.

Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library

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Hodgson, Marion Stegeman

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Dalrymple, Mildred

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Strother, Dora Jean Dougherty, 1921-2013

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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. S...

Women's Air Service Pilots (U.S.)

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Nielsen, René Mark

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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 No...

Strother, Dora Jean Dougherty, 1921-2013

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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. S...

Richards, Faith Buchner

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