Women Airforce Service Pilots (left to right) Frances Green, Margaret Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn at Lockbourne Army Air Field, Ohio 1944. These women pilots were some of the first to ferry B-17 “Flying Fortress” bombers. More than 1,000 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) provided essential military air support in the United States during World War II.

(National Archives. U.S. Airforce photo - public domain)