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Women Airforce Service Pilots

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Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran, June 2, 1947. Cochran’s career spanned four decades from the 1930s to the 1960s. Among her many accomplishments, she won the prestigious long-distance Bendix Trophy Race in 1937, founded the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) during WWII, and became the first woman to break the sound barrier in 1953. Here she stands in the cockpit of her North American P-51B Mustang. SI-86-533

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