How was the war different for female pilots?
Well, we didn’t have seniority or titles. No Colonels or Lieutenants, just pilots. The WASPs got civil service pay, not military pay, and flew as Army Air Corps pilots with no insurance. WASPs ferried airplanes within the U.S. and Canada, towed targets, flew VIPs to various bases, flew single and multiengine aircraft from base to base, factory to bases of overseas departure points. The flying experiences were invaluable and many WASPs went on to active military careers and other aviation ventures. They meet annually and have quarterly regional meetings. I attend our Southern California WASP Region III meetings as a “friend” of the WASPs. I’m not a military expert and my field is largely general aviation, so I can’t speak for the WASPs. After the war you went back to TWA? During the war years, the airline changed its name to TransWorld Airlines because of their expansion to Europe. I went back to TWA to their new Public Relations office in San Francisco. In those days they called PR the
