Subject: Happy Veterans Day Dr.

Elizabeth L. Gardner, World War II WASP member (Women Airforce Service Pilots),
at the controls of a B-26 Marauder -August, 1943
... Spotlight ... World War II Aviation 
Colonel Donald Blakeslee was one of the most decorated fighter pilots of World War II, and the commander of the first American fighter squadrons to reach Berlin. He was 90 when he died on September 3, 2008.

As commander of the Fourth Fighter Group of the Eighth Fighter Command, Colonel Blakeslee led three squadrons of 16 single-seat, single-engine P-51 Mustangs, each equipped with six machine guns mounted in the wings and sighted so that the bullet streams could converge on the enemy fighters that were trying to down Allied bombers. By war’s end, the Fourth Fighter Group was credited with destroying 1,020 German aircraft, 550 shot out of the air and 470 hit while on the ground. That total surpassed the 992 German planes taken out by the 56th Fighter Group, led by another fighter ace, Col. Hubert Zemke.

Looking back at the history of the United States, it’s obvious that WWII was filled with historical firsts. It’s interesting to note that the role of women drastically changed in WWII. In fact, people even called women “America’s Secret Weapon”. 

In January 1940, female pilots ferried open-cockpit training planes from a muddy base at Hatfield, up to Scotland. It was a modest start, but within a few years this group of female flyers would be at the controls of fighter planes and four-engine bombers. In time their numbers would swell to 168 out of a total of 1,245  ferry pilots and engineers.

As the war raged on, women slowly started working in conditions that were once considered “improper”. More than 400,000 women served in WWII. 432 of them died and 88 were prisoners of war. By the end of the war, women served in every occupation except direct combat. 

There’s no question that Women’s efforts in WWII helped the US succeed. They showed their capabilities to the entire world! Many brave women served in World War II, and they have earned their of “America’s Secret Weapon”.


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