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Lorraine Zilner
Rodgers
Lorraine Zilner Rodgers was
a member of The Women Airforce Service Pilots, known as the WASP, the
first group of women pilots to
serve the United States Army Air Force in
WWII. Out of 25,000 women who applied to the program, Rodgers was one out
of 1830 who were accepted. Given the task of ferrying aircraft across the
country, to allow the men to be available for combat, Rodgers often had to
deal with the stigma of being a woman pilot. The WASP did everything the
men did with equal ability, but lacked the equality of full military
benefits. After many years of fighting for military recognition, Rodgers
and her fellow female pilots received their veteran status on March 8,
1979 and cemented their roles in WWII, as well as the history of aviation.
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