Dayton OH – Apr 14
April 4, 2009
by The New Agenda
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Meet-Up Announcement!
Dayton, OH
Tuesday, April 14th at 6 pm.
Join us for coffee and learn about The New Agenda!
Everyone is welcome, and we’re saving you a seat!
Starbucks
2765 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd.
Dayton, OH 45459
Contact cynthiaruccia@thenewagenda.net for more information about the Meet-Up!
Don’t Miss it! Women’s History to See While Visiting Dayton Ohio
While you are in Dayton, swing by the National Museum of the Air Force and see the fantastic exhibits honoring Women Airforce Service Pilots. In August 1943 all women pilots flying for the USAAF were consolidated into the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program with Jacqueline Cochran as USAAF Director for Women Pilots. Nancy Harkness Love was named as WASP executive on the Air Transport Command Ferrying Division staff. More than 25,000 women applied for pilot training under the WASP program. Of these, 1,830 were accepted, 1,074 graduated and 900 remained at program’s end, plus 16 former WAFS. WASP assignments after graduation were diverse — as flight training instructors, glider tow pilots, towing targets for air-to-air and anti-aircraft gunnery practice, engineering test flying, ferrying aircraft and other duties.
Gretchen Carlson
Claudia Poccia
Jacki Zehner
Amazing how much I didn’t know about our history. Anna Belle—-hope your project’s moving along!! We need to teach all of our young people the proud history of women in our country. It’s a little weird to think that we have so many courageous, noteworthy women to look up to and none of them are being held up as examples to our youth. Of course that might mean that w’d also have to admit to the fact that these women accomplished great things in spite of the odds against them….
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