Ready for Takeoff

ID: 3511 ~ Source: Images Courtesy of WASP Archive, The TWU Libraries’ Woman’s Collection, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas.
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Bettie Scott sits in the cockpit of an AT 6 training aircraft at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, in 1944. The AT 6 Texan was used during the advanced stage of pilot training to prepare aviators for the handling and performance of military combat aircraft. Women in the WASP program trained on several types of aircraft at Avenger Field as part of a rigorous program modeled after Army Air Forces cadet instruction.

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…