~ NPR reports how, decades later, women pilots finally honored

Thank you. tom Clapper, for this great story. I am pasting the start of the story below with a link to the NPR website. There you can actually listen to the whole story.:

Decades After WWII, Female Pilots Finally Honored

All Things Considered, July 4, 2009 · President Obama signed a bill Wednesday granting the Congressional Gold Medal to a group of women most Americans have never heard of: the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP.

These were the first women to fly military aircraft. During World War II, they volunteered for noncombat duty, as test pilots and trainers. They freed up their male counterparts to go to Europe and fight in the war.

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