Word: airwomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of "Hap" Arnold's Army Air Forces. It would expand the whole WASP program to train and commission more women pilots. The bill would also give colonel's rank to handsome, energetic Jacqueline Cochran, now chief of the WASPs, and one of the ablest of U.S. airwomen...
Little Girls, Big Ships. Already discarded by military airmen is the notion that women airmen are good only for flying light craft like Piper Cubs and Aeroncas. Featured airwomen like Jackie Cochran long ago kicked the theory on the shins by flying such "hot" craft as the Seversky P-35, the Lockheed Hudson (one of which she helped push across the Atlantic). The WAFS' new graduates had proved it in the mass. They had flown everything from grasshoppers to snappy two-engined Cessna...
...Later Dictator Stalin, officially welcoming the distance fliers to the Kremlin, sternly observed that more care must be taken not to risk the lives of such heroic women as Miss Raskova "as their lives are more precious than any records." She then settled down, but one of her sister airwomen on that record flight flew Soviet military planes against the Finns recently. Raskova, according to Commerce Chamberman Williams, reminds one of the wooden Soviet female executive played by Garbo in Ninotchka...
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