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To: rlmorel

Those lhotos she had of her ferrying planes into other Afroca were quite convincing.

You are correct and spurredy memory.

She did say she could only fly into non active theatres...flew to Africa but bot into Europe.


38 posted on 05/13/2016 7:55:34 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Trump, effective govt. that will be great for crony "art of the deal" capitalists)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
Perhaps she wasn't a WASP, maybe working in some private function.

On the WASP website, they specifically state (and I have seen in said in a few other places as well) that WASPS were not allowed to fly Overseas at all, didn't specify combat or non-combat, just not overseas.

Even Jackie Cochrane, the head of the WASPS was not allowed to do so in her official role, although she did fly one airplane across the Atlantic in WWII:

(From the Dwight D. EisenhowerPresidential Library Archives) "...By 1941 Jacqueline Cochran was one of the most famous women pilots in the United States. Keenly aware of the Nazi threat to Europe, she approached the U.S. Army Air Corps and suggested the possibility of using women as ferry pilots in wartime. When her initial proposals were turned down she went to England (becoming in the process the only woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic in World War II) and volunteered her services to the Royal Air Force. For several months she worked for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a branch of the Royal Air Force. Her work involved recruiting qualified women pilots in the United States and taking them to England where they joined the ATA...

42 posted on 05/13/2016 9:20:15 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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