Margaret Harper Watson : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1995.

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Margaret Harper Watson : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1995.

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Watson discusses her family and youth in New Castle, her experiences as a WASP trainee and service at Las Vegas as an instrument instructor and towing targets for gunnery practice. Also discusses her marriage to Watson, who was Director of Flying at Las Vegas, her decision to leave the WASP, and her life after the war.

Transcript: 54 leaves.

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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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...

Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.)

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Letson, Dawn

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