Leaders and Legends: Women in Early Aviation
  • Introduction
  • Trailblazers
    • Bessie Coleman
    • Amelia Earhart
    • Marie Marvingt
    • Katherine and Marjorie Stinson
    • Blanche Stuart Scott
    • Harriet Quimby
  • Unsung Heroes
    • Willa brown
    • Katherine Cheung
    • Edna Gardner Whyte
  • Wild and the Mild
    • Florence "Pancho" Barnes
    • Anne Morrow lindbergh
    • The First Women's National Air Derby of 1929
  • WAFS and WASPS
    • WASPS >
      • WASP director Jackie Cochran
      • WAF Iris Cummings Critchell and Nancy Love
  • Time-line
  • Research
    • Interviews >
      • Erica Block
      • Iris Cummings Critchell
      • Henry Holden
      • Bob Malechek
      • Deanie Parrish
      • Heather Taylor
      • Sarah Rickman
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Process Paper
  • Conclusion

The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS/WASP)


“The success of the WASP program within the Ferrying Division was due largely to Nancy Love’s ability to organize, to lead and to cooperate with the “powers that be” within the Division. She had the respect of all with whom she worked, smoothly and efficiently from its start in September 1942 until de-activation in late December 1944.”
~ Betty Huyler Gillies, WAF, 1976

 "A program known as the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS)was in its infancy, and Jackie set about to improve the program to include better training and more flying opportunities for women pilots. The result of her efforts was the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). "- Shannon White

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