The WASPs used to fly out of Love Field in Dallas and the NAS and Hensley Field locations in Grand Prairie during WW II to ferry the aircraft to the operational units. Grand Prairie is where TEMCO and Chance Vaught factories were located.
Those women were patriots and very brave to do what they did. .....Of course the machine shops and aircraft factories in the area were also full of many “Rosies”, because most of the men workers were deployed.
I disagree with several of the posters above. I don’t believe females should be included in front line, combat because it is instinctive for males to try and protect them and a slight hesitation could be devastating to everyone. Females, in general, will react to their emotions in a given situation more so than males.
Don’t misunderstand. Many women can put their emotions aside and perform as trained, but it only takes one or two in a squad that can’t do so and the squad is gone.
“I don’t believe females should be included in front line”
Define “front line “ in modern war. Were the female soldiers murdered by Hasan in the Forth Hood massacre “in front line” or not? Was Officer Kim Munley who stopped the massacre by shooting and wounding the murderer “in front line” or not?
I will tell a secret. Military or civilian people, we are all now “in the front line.” It’s been a long time since the enemy armies don’t go out of cities on a field or hill and battle against each other until one is declared victor like at Austerlitz or Waterloo...