Nancy Love and the WASP ferry pilots of World War II

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"When the United States entered World War II, the Army needed pilots to transport or "ferry" its combat-bound aircraft across the United States for overseas deployment and its trainer airplanes to flight training bases. Male pilots were in short supply, so into this vacuum stepped Nancy Love and her Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). Initially the Army implemented both the WAFS program and Jacqueline Cochran's more ambitious plan to train women to do many of the military's flight-related jobs stateside. By 1943, General Hap Arnold decided to combine the women's programs and formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), with Cochran as the Director of Women Pilots. Love was named the Executive for WASP."

subjects: Air pilots,  American Aerial operations,  Biography,  Transportation,  United States,  United States. Army Air Force. Transportation,  United States. Army Air Forces. Air Transport Command. Ferrying Division,  Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.),  Women air pilots,  World War, 1939-1945,  United States. Army Air Forces,  Women in aeronautics,  United states, army air forces,  World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american,  World war, 1939-1945, transportation,  Air pilots, biography,  Women, united states, biography

People: Nancy Harkness Love (1914-1976)

Places: United States