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Shirley Slade, born in Chicago 1921. On the cover of Life (magazine), July 19, 1943. Trained to fly Bell P-39 Airacobras and Martin B-26 Marauders at three bases: Dodge City AAF, Kansas, Harlingen AAF, Texas, and Love Field, Dallas. Helen Wyatt Snapp; Jane Straughan, graduate of class 43-W-1.
- December 20, 1944
- August 5, 1943
- about 2,500 accepted for training, 1,072 completed training
- United States Army Air Forces
27. Okt. 2020 · Shirley Slade passed away on April 26, 2000, as “Shirley Slade Teer”, at 79 years old. She wasn’t alive to be a part of the 2010 ceremony at which the remaining 200 WASP women were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal bestowed upon them by Congress. Sources: Findagrave.com; Texas Womens University; Mental Floss; Reddit
18. Apr. 2018 · Slade was one of more than 1000 women who had been solicited by the U.S. government to enter an intensive seven-month training course that would make them the first female pilots to enter the Air...
26. Apr. 2000 · Shirley Slade Teer was the Daughter of John Carroll Slade and Katharine Keyes Slade. She married first to Major William R Berkeley at Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She married second to Gene Lafitte Teer. — A Salute to the Women Airforce Service Pilots In 1942, the United States was faced with a severe shortage of...
18. Jan. 2024 · WWII WASP pilot of B-26 and B-39, Shirley Slade, was one of 1,100 chosen for this important mission. Slade flew Bell P-39 Airacobras and Martin B-26 Marauders, which got her on the cover of...
The world’s first female military pilots—American and Soviet—helped win the war. This article appears in: Spring 2011. By Amy Goodpaster Strebe. In 1941 two events took place on opposite sides of the world that forever impacted the history of women in aviation.
12. Dez. 2013 · Comme Shirley Slade, c’est au sein de cette unité appelée WASP, pour Women Airforce Service Pilots, que des centaines de jeunes femmes ont participé à l’effort de guerre dans un rôle défini à l’époque comme secondaire mais néanmoins vital. A noter que WASP est la traduction de guêpe, doux mélange d’abnégation et de féminité.
