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  2. USS Wasp (CV-18) - Wikipedia

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    USS Wasp (CV/CVA/CVS-18) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship, the ninth US Navy ship to bear the name, was originally named Oriskany , but was renamed while under construction in honor of the previous Wasp (CV-7) , which was sunk 15 September 1942.

  3. USS Wasp (CV-7) - Wikipedia

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    USS Wasp (CV-7) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1940 and lost in action in 1942. She was the eighth ship named USS Wasp , and the sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to the U.S. for aircraft carriers under the treaties of the time.

  4. File:WASPS-Women-Airforce-Service-Pilots-Training-1943-Army ...

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    The following 24 pages use this file: Army–Navy Screen Magazine; Gender role; Women Airforce Service Pilots; User talk:Coffeeandcrumbs/FP 1; Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/October-2019

  5. Jacqueline Cochran - Wikipedia

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    Cochran was also the first woman to land and take off from an aircraft carrier, the first woman to pilot a bomber across the North Atlantic (in 1941) and later to fly a jet aircraft on a transatlantic flight, the first woman to make a blind (instrument) landing, the only woman ever to be president of the Fédération Aéronautique ...

  6. Betty Tackaberry Blake - Wikipedia

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    Betty Tackaberry "Tack" Blake (née Guild; October 29, 1920 – April 9, 2015) was the last surviving member of the first training class (Class 43-W-1 at Sweetwater, Texas, on April 24, 1943) of the Women Airforce Service Pilots paramilitary aviation service. [1]

  7. File : Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner, Women's Airforce Service ...

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    English: Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas--Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner of Rockford, Illinois, WASP (Women's Airforce Service Pilots), Class: 43-W-6, takes a look around before sending her plane streaking down the runway at the Harlingen Army Airfield, Texas, ca. 1930–1975. Note: Almost certainly this dates from 1942–1944, part of project of ...

  8. Women Airforce Service Pilots - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Elizabeth L. Gardner - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth L. Gardner (1921 – December 22, 2011) was an American pilot during World War II who served as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She was one of the first American female military pilots [1] and the subject of a well-known photograph, sitting in the pilot's seat of a Martin B-26 Marauder.