Cornelia Fort

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Biography of Cornelia Fort, a pilot in the Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS) who died in a plane crash on March 21, 1943. It includes details about Fort's childhood, education, and love of flying.

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31 p. : ill. ; 25 x 16 cm.

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Tanner, Doris Brinker November 1980.

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Located at Avenger Field in Nolan County Texas, the WASP World War II Museum commits to preserving the legacy of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of WWII. As a teaching museum, it features archives, exhibits, and oral histories that record a significant period in history when women dared to break barriers and contribute to victory.

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Biography of Cornelia Fort, a pilot in the Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS) who died in a plane crash on March 21, 1943. It includes details about Fort's childhood, education, and love of flying.

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31 p. : ill. ; 25 x 16 cm.

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Written at the top of page 1 in blue ink: "To: the Pioneer Museum, WASP Room, Sweetwater, Texas 79556, Doris Brinker Tanner (class 44-4)."

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National WASP WWII Museum

Bringing the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots to life, these archives represent the role of the flight school in training women pilots to fly military planes and show how WASPs responded socially and professionally to new challenges brought by war. Included are financial documents, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, pilots' logs, and flight manuals.

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Tanner, Doris Brinker. Cornelia Fort, pamphlet, November 1980; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1010654/: accessed March 11, 2026), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National WASP WWII Museum.

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