alt.binaries.pictures.aviationPrev. Next
Re: Rosie, pt 3 - Rosie 35.jpg (1/1) Easynews - www.easynews. ..
Charles Lindbergh (spirit@stlouis.invalid) 2016/08/25 09:23

Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
From: Charles Lindbergh <spirit@stlouis.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Subject: Re: Rosie, pt 3 - Rosie 35.jpg (1/1)
Message-ID: <d73urbdgjh12gm1gueokk7p3ujok3nh278@4ax.com>
References: <XnsA66D4807BCA5Enoemailattnet@216.166.97.131> <XnsA66D7017B4C36johnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131> <XnsA66E461E45910noemailattnet@216.166.97.131> <XnsA66E756898680johnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131> <XnsA66E8AC946BC2noemailattnet@216.166.97.131>
User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 62
X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com
Organization: Easynews - www.easynews.com
X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly.
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:23:48 +0000
X-Received-Body-CRC: 899835635
X-Received-Bytes: 2784
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.binaries.pictures.aviation:4406

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:43:23 -0500, Mitchell Holman <noemail@comcast.net> wrote:

>john Szalay <john.szalayatatt.net> wrote in
>news:XnsA66E756898680johnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131:
>
>> Mitchell Holman <noemail@comcast.net> wrote in
>> news:XnsA66E461E45910noemailattnet@216.166.97.131:
>>
>>> john Szalay <john.szalayatatt.net> wrote in
>>> news:XnsA66D7017B4C36johnszalayattnet@216.166.97.131:
>>>
>>>> Mitchell Holman <noemail@comcast.net> wrote in
>>>> news:XnsA66D4807BCA5Enoemailattnet@216.166.97.131:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> begin 644 Rosie 35.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> Attachment decoded: Rosie 35.jpg
>>>>> `
>>>>> end
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mary Josephine Farley
>>>> after this, she became a WASP.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      Good call. My mother was a WASP. A very
>>> overlooked program.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>    Not by me..  one of the ladies that I worked with was a WASP.
>>
>> also:
>>
>>  from the WASP  database &  The Congressional Record.
>>
>> 43-8     Lois Gene Holman     nee     (French)
>>
>> &
>>
>> Dora Dougherty, third from left in front of B-29 "Ladybird"
>> with Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (left), Dorothea Johnson (2nd from
>> left) and B-29 crew.
>>
>> Col Tibbets trained these two ladies to fly the B-29 to show the men
>> that the plane was not dangerous.
>
>
>    My mother was part of the WASP's trained
>to fly the B26 to show the men the men it was
>not as dangerous as made out. "A plane a day
>in Tampa Bay" and all that.
>
>

I am curious, what kind of background did your Mom have that put her into that position with the WASP's?  Was
she a civilian pilot prior to enlisting?

Follow-ups:123456
Next Prev. Article List         Favorite