Oh, come on! Did you actually think I was doing a Griday on wasps? What kind of demented individual do you think I am?! Actually, don’t answer that…I’m fairly certain I already know what you’re going to say and you know what? You’re probably right! Enough about me, though. Let’s get on with the WASPS! Or, the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots. Clever, eh? Ah, the crazy things they thought of in the 1940’s!

Right-O. You ladies should know about women stepping up and manning the factories and such during WWII. Heck, they produced the weapons and planes; if it wasn’t for them, the boys couldn’t have fought to make sure we weren’t going to be flying Swastikas anytime soon. They also had that baseball league, which was uber cool! You should definitely know about that if you’ve seen “A League Of Their Own.” There’s more though, ladies! There was WASP! No, not the Anglo-Saxon group. What kind of Griday do you think I’m running here?! SHEESH!!!

Look at those hardcore ladies! What did they do?! WHAT DID THEY DO?! Welp, they were American and they flew missions in WWII. Not combat missions, but other important ones like flying from military bases to factories and vice versa, or towing drones and aerial targets. These ladies were trained by the Air Force and they flew those bigg-butt planes!

A lady and record-breaking aviator by the name of Jackie Cochran thought the idea up. She figured that if the US by chance were to enter the war, female pilots could fly missions that weren’t directly related to combat to free up the men to do more fighting. She wrote Eleanor Roosevelt about her idea. Then, another aviation extraordinaire by the name of Nancy Harkness Love wrote a colonel with a similar idea and the names of 49 women who could help. He brought the idea to a general, because the dude was interested. Of course, General No Fun said no. Good old England however, started using women in such a way in 1941 and it was a hit. Sooo, a re-admittance of their proposals was welcomed this time because of England’s success with their awesome female pilots.

WASP was not established until Cochran and Love’s groups were merged into some super group. By the time the WASP disbanded in December 1944, they had flown a total of 60 million miles in 77 different types of aircrafts and had towed targets so fighter pilots could practice firing. They had trained male pilots and established a safety record that slightly bettered the men and they had proved to have as much stamina and endurance as the men. At the end of it all, 38 women had given their lives. It would be more than 30 years before the U.S. Air Force would again train female recruits to fly. In the meantime, U.S. military leaders totally overlooked the record set by Cochran and Love’s pilots who had more than proved that women could and would fly for their country with as much dedication, courage, and aptitude as men.

Ya know, us gals have the women from the 1940’s to thank for A LOT, because if they hadn’t been pretty much forced out of the home to work and be independent, we never would have had those dissatisfied housewives in the 1950’s who earned to once again have more and then do you think we would’ve had the feminism movements from the 60’s and 70’s? Hmmmm?! PLUS! Women more than proved that they were just as good as men and deserved equal rights. JUST LOOK! Do you think we would be where we are today if it wasn’t for these women?