Flora Belle Smith Reece : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1997.

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Flora Belle Smith Reece : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50513572

Reece discusses her family and childhood in Oklahoma. She describes her WASP pilot training and graduation at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas; duty assignments at Foster Field, Victoria, Texas; B-26 school at Harlington Air Force Base, Harlington, Texas; and Enid Army Air Base, Enid Oklahoma. After the WASP program was deactivated in December 1944, Reece became a flight instructor and flew charter flights in Oklahoma City, Married and raised a family. Eventually Reece and her husband served two years with the Peace Corps in Malaysia, India, and Thailand.

Transcript: 50 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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Aviator and native of Oklahoma. Served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, Class 44-W-4. From the description of Flora Belle Smith Reece : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1997. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 50513572 ...