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A High Flyer in WWII, She Fought for Women to be Buried at Arlington


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http://voiceofoc.org/2016/05/a-high-flyer-in-wwii-she-fought-for-women-to-be-buried-at-arlington/

 

Great article about WASP, Beverly Beesemyer.

 

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Here are some excerpts:

 

Among other things, Beesemyer trained male pilots to use machine guns to attack enemy aircraft.“I towed targets and they fired 50 caliber machine guns at the sock (target) I was towing,” she said during an interview at her home. Her plane was hit by errant fire once, but she wasn’t injured.

 

There are 104 surviving WASPs. The youngest is 91 and the two oldest are 103.

 

She recently took the controls of an AT-6:

 

It was a surprise for Beesemyer arranged by Red Door Films, which is producing a mini-series on the WASPs.

 

“I always said I wanted to fly (again) in an AT-6 before I died,” said Beesemyer, who is now legally blind and relies on a walker. “It was hard to get me in (to the co-pilot seat) and just as hard to get me out,” she recalled. But once the pilot had them off the ground, he let her take the controls for a few turns.

 

“What else would you like to do,” she said he asked her.

 

“I would like to do a roll ... a loop roll.

 

“So, he did one and I said ‘can I do one now?’ And he said ‘sure’ and boom, I did another one!” she said, describing her first experience in an AT-6 in 72 years.

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It is pretty amazing that at 97 years old, legally blind, using a walker, and 72 years after flying planes, she can still do a loop roll in an AT-6. :)

 

These women were amazing. :love:

 

...Kat

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