WASP

American Airlines will be flying a large group of WASPs to Washington D.C. for the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony being held on March 10th at the Capital Building. During World War II, a select group of young women pilots became pioneers, heroes and role models...they were the Women Airforce Service Pilots, WASP, the first women in history trained to fly American military aircraft.

"This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. WOMEN PILOTS, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used."
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942

"You don't need legislation to prove something... you can be whatever you set your  heart and head to be, and don't let anybody tell you can't be, because 1078 women pilots did it in World War II."
WASP Annelle Henderson Bulechek44-W-2

Learn more about WASPs on the web: http://www.wingsacrossamerica.us/wasp/index.htm