Elite Aviators

ID: 3510 ~ Source: Images Courtesy of WASP Archive, The TWU Libraries’ Woman’s Collection, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas.
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Pilots Kristin Swan, Bettie Scott, R. M.S., and Meriem Roby (left to right) lean against an aircraft at Avenger Field which served as the sole training site for the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program. Out of more than 25,000 applicants about 1,000 women graduated from training. At a time when military aviation was overwhelmingly male, the concentration of women training together at Avenger Field created one of the first large communities of female military aviators in the United States.

This file appears in: Bettie Mae Scott

By Corrinna Corrallo
During World War II, Elizabeth “Bettie” Mae Scott joined a small group of women who took to the skies in support of the United States war effort. Scott served as a member of the Women Airforce Service…