Many thanks to Muriel Martin and the hundreds of other female pilots of WW2. Heroes all.
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2 posted on
09/12/2009 10:17:49 AM PDT by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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3 posted on
09/12/2009 10:21:33 AM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Liberty Valance
Muriel Martin flew the T-6D.
4 posted on
09/12/2009 10:23:46 AM PDT by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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>>But when the Army disbanded the corps in 1944, the women went back to their pre-war lives without any of the honors or benefits their male counterparts received.
>>Just this year, President Barack Obama signed legislation awarding the WASPs the Congressional Gold Medal — one of the nation’s highest civilian honors.
The WASPs did a great service for this nation, but that does not rise to the level of “hero”. Or at least it didn’t until recently where the definition of “hero” has been diluted.
What kind of recognition did male civilian ferry pilots receive?
5 posted on
09/12/2009 10:25:30 AM PDT by
Bryanw92
(Question O-thority!)
To: Liberty Valance
By the way, LaFeria Texas is 9 miles north of the Mexico border in deep South Texas. My family still has a farm (oranges - grapefruit) there. The farm is about 5 miles east of the old Rebel Field where the Confederate Air Force started. It has moved and is now called the Commemorative Air Force.
10 posted on
09/12/2009 10:40:46 AM PDT by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Yes we owe so much thanks to those wonderful women pilots!
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"WWII Female Pilots Finally Get Recognition" This is another one of our PC stories that get the same headlines every year.
After 40 years or so of telling this story you would think that the headline would get updated, but it never does.
15 posted on
09/12/2009 11:48:39 AM PDT by
ansel12
To: Liberty Valance
Cornelia Fort
WASP, patriot, American hero
18 posted on
09/12/2009 12:05:54 PM PDT by
2sheds
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To: Liberty Valance
Oh for goodness sake. It seems like every year there is some minority or female military unit from WWII that gets a Congressional Gold Medal or some such honor. The same goes for Medal of Honor recipients. The government picks some black guy that was in WWII and pins an MOH on him. Not to disrespect their service, but it certainly seems contrived and staged.
I find it hard to believe that all these people were ignored the past 60+ years and only now they are getting their just recognition.
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I wonder if any of these women when to Alaska after to war to become bush pilots?
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