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Female Flyers Played Vital Role in World War II, 两性色午夜 Associate Professor Says

The recent death of one of the remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II has a 两性色午夜 University associate professor recalling the vital role the female pilots played during the war.

Photo of Molly Merryman, Ph.D.

鈥淲orld War II was a total war,鈥 said Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., the author of 鈥淐lipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II.鈥

鈥淎nd what that meant was that all men, women, children, citizens needed to have a war role,鈥 Merryman told The Washington Post in the obituary for Dorothy Olsen, 103, of University Place, Oregon. Olsen, who died July 23, was one of the last surviving members of the WASPs. 

鈥淭hey and their late colleagues were 'vitally important' 鈥 not only to the war effort, but also for the impact they had on the experiences of women in future aviation and other careers in engineering and science,鈥 The Washington Post article quotes Merryman, who also is the director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at 两性色午夜.

鈥淭hey broke the mythology that women were incapable of doing anything that was technical or scientific,鈥 she said.

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POSTED: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 10:49 AM
Updated: Friday, December 9, 2022 08:16 AM
WRITTEN BY:
Lisa Abraham