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...WASPs, who had done a man-sized job of flying for the Army, had asked for it. Through their head woman, famed speed-flying Jacqueline Cochran (wife of tycoon Floyd B. Odlum), they had demanded the same military status as the WACs, WAVEs, SPARs and Women Marines. In spite of Hap Arnold's earnest support of the plan, which would have made Jackie Cochran a colonel, Congress had turned thumbs down...
...City, Pa., was ready to welcome home its hero, 25-year-old Lieut. Colonel Francis Gabreski, top-scoring Thunderbolt pilot of the Eighth Air Force and top U.S. ace. Gabby's fiancée, pretty Kay Cochran, 20, had made all the plans for a wedding...
...LYNN COCHRAN...
...Reader Cochran should get in touch with Robert Livingston Bailey, of the Civil Service Commission, Washington, B.C., who swears that he, too, has the original letter in question. It is not, he says, one of the Morris Plan Bank of Virginia's reproductions...
...Jackie Cochran maintained an anxious silence while Hap Arnold talked on. The committee kept its report in its desk. Ramspeck had not decided whether to release it officially or let the cold facts come out in debate when Cochran's WASPs are tossed onto the House floor...