Betty J. Clark : an oral history / interviewed by Jean Yale, 1998.

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Betty J. Clark : an oral history / interviewed by Jean Yale, 1998.

Clark discusses her early medical training, WASP training at Sweetwater, learning to fly the B-25, and her service at various bases which included towing for anti-aircraft gunnery. Also discusses her crop dusting career experiences and membership in the American Association of Agricultural Pilots as the only woman spray-pilot.

Transcript: 25 leaves.

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Clark, Betty R.

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Clark was an x-ray technician and worked in several hospitals before learning to fly. Graduated from the WASP, class of 43-W-7, training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. Service assignments included: Nathan Field, Sacramento, California where she learned to fly the B-25; Chico Army Air Field, California; and March Army Air Base, Riverside. Following WASP deactivation in 1944, Clark went into the crop dusting business in Colorado and later Nicaragua, eventually becoming co-owner of an airport...

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Yale, Jean, 1931-

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