WASP getting Cong. Gold Medal

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2010/02/airforce_wasp_022010/

 

"It's been a long road," said Parrish, 87, who joined the service in 1944. "It's only taken them 65 years."

 

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"They flew every kind of aircraft the military had," said retired Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught, president of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation. "This was an opportunity to fly types of aircraft they would never have an opportunity to fly. It was exciting to them."