Nevada women military pilots of World War 2, 1998.

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Nevada women military pilots of World War 2, 1998.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40431354

Reminiscences of Nevada women who were members of the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II include accounts by or about Jacqueline Cochran, Margaret (Maggie) Gee, Lois Brooks Hailey, Jean McCart, Betty Strohfus Wall, Mildred Taylor, Beverly Moses, Doris Klein Ohm, Hazel Hohn, Joy Merritt Moore, Geraldine Hardman Jordan, Jeanette Jenkins, Marjorie Laverne Davis, Lola King Gieseking, Maxine Harvey, Madelon Burcham Hill, Rosina Lewis Todd, Margaret Harper Watson, Florence Emig Wheeler, Edna Bishop, Marie Mountain Clark, Ruth Craig Jones, Elaine Rowe, Fran Dias Gustavson, Bev Beesemeyer, Blanche Osborn, Marianne Verges, Olive (Gwen) Crosby Barthelmess, Louesa Thompson Beard, Julia Bartlett, Ida (Skip) Carter, Mardo Crane, Margaret Gerhardt, Madelyn Taylor Eggleston, Dorothy Krasovec Eby, Lewise Adie, Fran Snyder Tanassy, Marge Barkeley, the Las Vegas Army Airfield (now, Nellis Air Foce Base), the Minden Inn, and the Reno Sky Ranch (airfield).

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University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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Cochran, Jacqueline, 1906?-1980

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Jacqueline Cochran, cosmetics executive and world-famous aviatrix, was the product of obscure origins. Born Bessie Pittman, born 1906/1908/1910, in northwest Florida (sources differ on her birth year). The Pittmans were and impoverished family that moved from one town to another in search of work. Even as a child, Bessie possessed an unusual amount of drive and ambition. She resented the limited opportunities available to her in such an environment, especially after she was told the Pittmans wer...

McCart, Jean.

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Davis, Marjorie Laverne.

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Wheeler, Florence Emig.

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Ohm, Doris Klein.

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Rowe, Elaine, (Pilot)

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Wall, Betty Strohfus.

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Clark, Marie Mountain, 1915-

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Hill, Madelon Burcham.

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Hohn, Hazel.

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Nevada woman who was a pilot in the Women Air Force Service Pilots. From the description of Nevada women military pilots of World War 2, 1998. (University of Nevada, Reno). WorldCat record id: 40431354 ...

Moses, Beverly.

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Gieseking, Lola King.

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Beesemeyer, Bev.

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Jenkins, Jeanette.

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Moore, Joy Merritt.

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Barthelmess, Olive Crosby.

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Bishop, Edna Bryte

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W.A.S.P. (Musical group)

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Osborn, Blanche.

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Jones, Ruth Craig.

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Taylor, Mildred, (Pilot)

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Todd, Rosina Lewis.

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Gustavson, Fran Dias.

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Verges, Marianne

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Bartlett, Julian

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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...

Harvey, Maxine

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Beard, Louesa Thompson.

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Jordan, Geraldine Hardman.

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Hailey, Lois Brooks.

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Gee, Maggie, 1923-2013

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Maggie Gee was born in Berkeley, California, August 5, 1923. She was a third-generation Chinese American; her maternal grandparents had moved to California from a village in Guangdong. In 1941, Gee enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley to study physics, but dropped out after a few months to work in the drafting department at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, following the United States' entering World War II. She subsequently trained to become a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots).Af...