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Women Airforce Service Pilots

After 65 years, the nation’s first female military pilots receive their due

On March 10 hundreds of  active-duty female U.S. Air Force pilots accompanied more than 200 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) into the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center’s 580,000-square-foot marble and glass Emancipation Hall for a long-overdue ceremony.

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