Jacqueline Cochran 'wanted to prove that women indeed could fly every aircraft in the Army. And she didn’t want just one special woman to do this. She wanted a group of women to do it,' Rochow Balden Seymour, a pilot who served under Cochran, said.
In Europe and the Pacific, World War II rages on relentlessly. SNOW: In the United States, the war is consuming an unprecedented amount of resources. Families survive on rations of food, clothing, and gasoline, and every manufacturer churns out supplies for the military.SNOW: But perhaps the biggest impact on resources is on people. With millions of men serving overseas, women are offered jobs that had never been available to them before-- including aviation.
FALK HAYDU: Initially when the program started, they weren’t sure whether or not the women would be able to fly military aircraft. So we were started as an experiment. With this specialized knowledge, they take on a wide range of missions crucial to the war effort, from ferrying newly-built planes from aviation factories to Army bases, to maintenance flights and engine checks.
SNOW: Called tow targeting, the WASPs fly their planes downrange from machine gunners while towing a long target. To adjust for distance and the effects of gravity, the machine gunners use the WASP's flying tow targets to learn how to adjust their aim.
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