[Certificate of Recognition to Women Airforce Service Pilots] Page: 1 of 2
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<THE STATE OF TEXAS
GOVERNOR'To aff to whom these presents shaff come,
greetings: '1now ye that this official recognition is
presented to:
Women Airforce
Service Pilots
During a time when the United States needed the best out of every American, the Women Airforce
Service Pifots (WASP) answered the caff. With pilots in short suyy, these women stepyeX
Jorwarlto untrgo the same training as their ma~e counterparts, (earning toffy just about
everything the United States mifltary couff put in the sky.
T he missions theyffew might not have involved combat, but the WASP contribution to the war
effort - and to the hives of the women whoff(owecfthem into the cockypit -was monumentaL
First Ladyj Anita Perry joins me in congratufating this extraordinary group of women.
In testimony whereof I have signed my
name and caused the Seaf of the State of
49 Texas to be affixed at the City oj Austin, this
the 12" day of September, 2008.
M~s HEMEGovernor of Texas
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