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WASP Timeline

By kml2013
  • Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific.

    Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific.

  • President Roosevelt Orders Production of Planes

    President Roosevelt Orders Production of Planes

    This causes more planes being produced causing more pilots needed.

  • General Arnold Orders Civilian Flying Schools

    This was established to train Air Corps Cadets to fly military Aircraft.
  • Jackie Cochran wins first place in the Transcontinental Bendix Race.

    Jackie Cochran wins first place in the Transcontinental Bendix Race.

    This is important because it is the start of a new women pilot
  • The Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) is established by the U.S. government.

    The Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) is established by the U.S. government.

    The program provided pilot training across the country and allowed for one woman to be trained for every ten men.

  • September 1 -- Germany invades Poland.

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.

    Growing tension
  • Jackie Cochran writes to Eleanor Roosevelt suggesting the establishment of a women's flying division of the Army Air Forces.

    Jackie Cochran writes to Eleanor Roosevelt suggesting the establishment of a women's flying division of the Army Air Forces.

    Without this letter and the support from Eleanor Roosevelt.

  • Women are banned from participating in the Civilian Pilot Training Program.

    Women were banned because men didn't want them to try to get into the airforce

  • Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to ferry a bomber across the Atlantic.

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    Now the men have to go fight in the war.

  • Jackie Cochran

    takes 25 American women pilots to Britain to fly with the British Air Transport Auxiliary.

  • September -- Following a proposal submitted by pilot Nancy Harkness Love to the Ferry Command of the Army Air Forces, the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, or WAFS, is established. Twenty-five of America's top women pilots will begin ferrying aircraft

  • Cochran establishes WFTD

    Jackie Cochran establishes the Women's Flying Training Detatchment (WFTD), under cheif of the Army Air Forces, General "Hap" Arnold.

  • First class of WFTD reports to the Municipal Airport

    The first class of 28 recruits from the Women's Flying Training Detachment reports to the Houston, Texas, municipal airport.