Tag: Jackie Cochran

• A Possibly Too-Succinct History of the WASP

  

  By Margaret DiBenedetto The WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) program began with a feud and ended, some might say, in abandonment. The program’s two years of existence was an experiment that yielded overwhelmingly positive and beneficial results, contributed undeniably to the US victory in WWII, and was short-sightedly terminated. Nancy Love and Jackie Cochran were…

  Full Court Press

  March 5, 2023

  Blog, Mountain Essays

  aviation, aviation history, aviators, Jackie Cochran, Nancy Harkness Love, Nancy Love, Ruth Reynolds, the catskills, Upstate New York, Women Airforce Service Pilots, women aviators, women pilots