WASP: Women in the WW2 US Army Air Force Photographs

57 items in this album on 3 pages.


Hazel Lee posing with a biplane, United States, circa 1930s	Betty Gillies posing besides an aircraft, date unknown	Celia Hunter in the cockpit of a P-47 fighter, date unknown	Cornelia Fort posing with a PT-19 aircraft, date unknown

Jackie Cochran in the cockpit of P-40 Warhawk fighter, circa 1942-1945	Portrait of Mildred Axton, circa 1940s	WASP pilot Deanie (Bishop) Parrish in front of her P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft, circa early 1940s	Newspaper photo of US Army Air Force Chief of Transport Command, Major General Harold George, congratulating Nancy Harkness Love on her appointment to head the Women’s Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS), Sep 1942

Eveyln Sharp (center) with other WASP pilots, 1943	Hazel Lee in WASP service, 1943-1944	Jackie Cochran in uniform, circa 1943	Nancy Harkness Love posing in front of a PT-19A trainer aircraft, 1942-43. Note WAFS patch on her jacket (forerunner of the WASPs).

WAFS pilots Barbara London (in cockpit) and Evelyn Sharp, 1942-1944	WASP pilot Catherine Vail Bridge standing in front of a P-38 Lightning, date and location unknown.	WASP pilot Elizabeth L. Gardner at the window of her B-26 Marauder bomber, Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas, United States, circa 1942-1945	WASP pilot Florene Watson seated in a P-51D Mustang, date and location unknown.

WASP pilot Violet Wierzbicki on the wing of a Vultee BT-13 Valiant, 1943. Location unknown.	Autographed copy of a posed photo of WAFS pilot Florene Watson with an AT-6 Texan, Love Field, Dallas, Texas, United States, Feb 1943	WASP cadets Leonora Anderson and Mildred Axton show off the oversized and ill-fitting jump suits provided to the WASP program, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, United States, May 1943.	WASP trainee pilot Shirley Slade on the cover of the 19 Jul 1943 issue of Life Magazine