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Four WASPs (Womens Air Force Service Pilots) in flight clothing are shown leaving their Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Pistol Packin' Mama" at the four engine school at Lockbourne Field, Ohio, mid-1944. Left to right: Frances Greene, Margaret "Peg" Kirshner (Stevenson), Ann Waldner, Blanche Osborne.

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