WOMEN IN THE WILD BLUE…Target-Towing WASP at Camp Davis
Published September 2006
ISBN 0-9708239-3-2
This is a tribute to the WASP, Women Airforce Service Pilots, heroic young women who flew military aircraft during WWII. This special group of women were picked to prove that women could fly more difficult missions and Camp Davis became the proving grounds. One of their missions was to fly over Topsail Island towing aerial targets simulating enemy aircraft. Antiaircraft gunnery trainees fired live ammunition at them. They were civilians serving under military rules, yet they were unrecognized for their contribution to the WWII effort until 33 years later.
| |
|
