M. Allaire Bennett : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1995.

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M. Allaire Bennett : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1995.

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Bennett discusses her childhood and growing up in in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, her early fascination with flying and seeing Amelia Earhart at the San Fernando Airport. After one year of college, Bennett started working and eventually got a job at an aircraft factory. She took flying lessons and in May, 1943 entered the WASP, class 43-W-7. Bennett discusses her WASP training and her assignment at Mather Field flying the B-25 as well as her life after WASP deactivation when she worked at various jobs, eventually moving to Tucson, Arizona.

Transcript: 37 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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Letson, Dawn

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Bennett, Madeline Allaire.

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Native of New York City; grew up in California. Joined the WASP, class 43-W-7, and gratuated in Nov. 1943. B-25 training at Mather Army Air Base in Sacramento followed, after which Bennett served at March Army Air Base in Riverside. Later lived in Arizona until her death from cancer Aug. 3, 2001. From the description of M. Allaire Bennett : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1995. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 50528967 ...