Fly Girls

Radio Diaries : #31: Fly Girls Image
Radio Diaries : #31: Fly Girls Image

Fly Girls

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In the early 1940s, the U.S. Air Force faced a dilemma. Thousands of new airplanes were coming off assembly lines and needed to be delivered to military bases nationwide, yet most of America’s pilots were overseas fighting the war. To solve the problem, the government launched an experimental program to train women pilots. They were known as the WASPs, the Women Air Force Service Pilots.