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  • WWII female pilots finally get recognition

    09/12/2009 10:13:59 AM PDT · by Liberty Valance · 46 replies · 2,092+ views
    The McAllen Monitor ^ | September 11, 2009 | Jeremy Roebuck
    Muriel Martin spent four years helping train fighter pilots as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot, or WASP, during WWII.Muriel Martin struggles these days to remember the years she spent as a World War II U.S. Army Air Force pilot. The dates have run together in her mind and the details of her training and experience long ago faded into the background of a life filled with child rearing and community service. But some days, the memories push through and she finds herself back in her 20s and in the cockpit again. “I was flying to Dallas earlier this year and...