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Spring 2005 SOUNDS p. 28
Women Airforce Service Pilots
(WASP) at Camp DavisBy David Stallman
The Army Airforce in 1941 took the first
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Command asked Miss Jacqueline Cochran
to join its staff in order to analyze the
problems involved in broadening the use
of women pilots.
By 1943 the Women Airforce Service
Pilots (WASP) became 4 vital part of the
WWII antiaircraft training effort here at
Camp Davis and Topsail Island. Male
pilots viewed the new "darlings of flight"
as invading their domain, yet the scarcity
of pilots for combat depended on the
WASP to do important non-combat pilot
chores. In the past women had been
trained to ferry airplanes from post to
post, but now were reassigned to one of
the most crucial assignments in the
Airforce.
Jacqueline Cochran hailed from
Pensacola, Florida. She learned to fly in
1932, earning her private pilot's license
after three weeks training. By 1937 she had
flown in a number of international races,
set some 18 records, and won the women's
division of the Bendix event and third
place against a field of men pilots. A year
later she won the coast-to-coast dash, set-
ting a new women's transcontinental
record of 10 hours, 7 minutes, 10 seconds.
Later she became the first woman to fly a
bomber across the Atlantic, to fly a jet
across the same ocean, and to break the
sound barrier.
As you might guess, Jacqueline was a
determined woman and when she
believed in something she wouldn't take
no for an answer. In March 1941 Jacqueline
met with General Henry 'Hap' Arnold to
talk about bringing female civilian pilots
into jobs that would free up men pilots for
combat missions. He asked her to deliver a
twin engine bomber to England. A
woman had never flown a bomber across
the Atlantic. She did it with some assis-
tance at takeoff. When she returned
President and Eleanor Roosevelt invited
her to dinner. Eleanor had long been an
advocate for women's rights and she'had
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