My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
WASP Special Delivery-- Part 1: WASPs Flying the Planes
From the 2018 Paralyzed Veterans of America calendar, May.
Picture of five women in flight gear looking at a map on the ground with a bomber behind them.
WASP SPECIAL DELIVERY "This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used." --Eleanor Roosevelt.
It is late Autumn 1944. On the tarmac of the Lockheed Aircraft Plant in Burbank, California, a group of four Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) are gathered around the flight leader. She is kneeling and pointing at a map.
--HreHen
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