The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots[2] or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots[3]) was a civilian women pilots' organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees. Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots.

2025年1月28日 · Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), U.S. Army Air Forces program that tasked some 1,100 civilian women with noncombat military flight duties during World War II. The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were the first women to fly U.S. military aircraft. WASP had its origins with a pair of exceptionally skilled and ambitious female flyers.

2023年11月30日 · During World War II, American women took to the skies to serve their country as members of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). After Pearl Harbor, US military leaders recognized that the war effort would need more aviators.

2019年4月23日 · WASP Joann Garrett flew twin-engine B-26 planes and C-60 transport aircraft at Army Air Bases in Texas and Kansas in service to her country. Referring to themselves as “Avenger Girls,” the Women Airforce Service Pilots were superheroes of aviation.

The new unified group called itself the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), with its pilots known as WASPs. In its first few weeks, the WFTD required women pilots to have a private pilot license and 200 hours of flight time, and would then train them to fly "the Army way."

Most people who think of women in the Army in World War II think of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and their work in dozens of non-combat specialties to free men for combat service. An even smaller, more select group of women were allowed …

The Official WASP Archive collects, organizes, and preserves the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. In addition, we actively represent the WASP and share their history to inspire the next generation of female aviators.

2024年11月22日 · The Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) were a brave and dedicated group of aviators who helped the U.S. win the WWII battles in the air. They did not participate in combat directly. But they did take the place of men who could and did fight in the air.

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) The WAFS and WFTD merged into WASP on Aug. 5, 1943. Cochran served as director of WASP and its training division, while Love was director of the ferrying...

WASP Mildred Toner Chapin 43-3 is born in 1920. WASP Margaret L. Parish Garland 44-7 is born in 1922 in Raleigh, NC. Read about the lives of six incredible WASP. Stop by the Museum at Avenger Field to see the exhibit in person before it changes in April 2025. It's here! Click below to read about what the National WASP WWII Museum has been up to.