During WWII the Women Airforce Service Pilots -- WASP for short, was created by the USAAF. These lady pilots, more than 1,100 flew military aircraft. Single to multi-engine aircraft. From non-combat like transports and spotters, to fighters and bombers including the B-17, B-26, and B-29 bombers. Henry "Hap" Arnold said he wasn't sure "whether a slip of a girl could fight the controls of a B-17 in heavy weather." Later he ate crow and admitted how wrong he really was when he said "Now in 1944, it is on the record that women can fly as well as any man!"

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