This OpEd explains the impact of the female pilots of color who served as part of the Women Airforce Service Pilots ⤵️
Before its end, the WASP corps offered women the opportunity to fly in a time when fewer than 1 percent of Americans had pilot licenses. Despite a direct ban of African-American women—which made the WASP acronym an apt name for the unit—the program featured several exceptional women of color. These are their stories.The only Native American woman to serve as a WASP was the late Ola Mildred “Millie” Rexroat.
“I never gave it a thought. You couldn't worry about things like that.... You can't live forever,” she told theRexroat’s tenure lasted only three months before the program closed, but that didn’t stop her from being an aviator. She went on to serve during the Korean War, and later as an air traffic controller for the Federal Aviation Administration. She
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