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<title>
(1940s) WAFS
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<history>Time-The Weekly Magazine-1940s Highlights</history>
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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TIME Magazine
September 21, 1942
WAFS
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<p> The Army Air Forces last week tapped the one group of
experienced pilots that had not yet heard the come-hitcher of
the armed services. To ferry aircraft from factory to airdrome,
release uniformed men for combat service, it invited the 500 or
600 women with commercial pilot licenses to give it a lift, sat
back to await a rush of ladybirds.
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<p> Name of the new service is the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying
Squadron. Not yet ready to put skirted airmen into its uniform,
the Air Forces will hire its new ferry service pilots as Civil
Service employees (at $3,000 a year). As boss of the new
squadron the Air Forces picked photogenic, 28-year-old Mrs.
Nancy Harkness Love, flying wife of a lieutenant colonel in the
Air Transport Command, set her up in business at headquarters
at Wilmington, Del.
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<p> There Vassar-trained Nancy Love, who has sold airplanes,
helped her husband operate a flying school, flown the length and
breadth of the U.S., will shortly begin training her first
recruits. She looks forward to the day when the WAFS will become
a uniformed part of the armed forces, like their British
opposite number, Air Transport Auxiliaries.
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