All-Female Military Units and Formations - Women Airforce Service Pilots, Angels of Bataan, United States Navy Nurse Corps (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Women Airforce Service Pilots, Angels of Bataan, United States Navy Nurse Corps, Women in the Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Women's Army Corps, Auxiliary Territorial Service, Women's Battalion, United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, WAVES, Women's Auxiliary Service, Women's Royal Naval Service, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division, 14th Searchlight Battery, Australian Women's Army Service, Dahomey Amazons, Night Witches, Women's Royal Army Corps, Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Amazonian Guard, Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps, 1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Canadian Women's Army Corps, Women's Royal Air Force, Woman's Land Army of America, Lotta Svard, Rani of Jhansi Regiment, Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, Australian Women's Land Army, Women's Flying Training Detachment, Hello Girls, Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet, Women's Army Volunteer Corp, SPARS, USS Northampton, Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service, Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Service. Excerpt: The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and its predecessor groups the Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) (from September 10, 1942) were pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots employed to fly military aircraft under the direction of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The WFTD and WAFS were combined on August 5, 1943, to create the paramilitary WASP organization. The female pilots of the WASP would end up numbering 1,074, each freeing a male pilot for combat service and duties. The WASP flew over 60 million miles in all, in every type of military aircraft. WASPs were granted veteran status in 1977, and given the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009. Twenty-five thousand women applied to join the WASP, but only 1,830 were ac...