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| 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 | 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 pilot Nancy Harkness Love in the cockpit of B-17 Flying Fortress bomber 'Queen Bee', circa Sep 1943 | Pilot Nancy Harkness Love and WAF co-pilot Betty Huyler Gillies, the first women to fly the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, circa 1943-1945 |
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| WASP Nancy Love in the cockpit of Fairchild PT-19 trainer, circa 1944, location unknown. |
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