Military Heroes – U. S. Air Force

WASP Corps

Florence Marston doesn’t really want recognition for what she did as a Women Airforce Service Pilot.  “All I did was to fly a couple of airplanes,” said the Clinton woman.

But others find what she and about 1,100 other women did during World War II a pretty amazing feat. The women risked their lives in the new field of flight — and broke gender barriers in the process — to train glider pilots and ferry military equipment.

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Provided courtesy of Southern Maryland Online.

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