Acrylic on on gallery wrapped canvas 30" x 40" Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) lasted only two years, 1942-44. 1100 women flew planes for transport and training both in the States and abroad. (from left) Frances Green, Margaret Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leave their B-17, called Pistol Packin' Mama, during ferry training at Lockbourne Army Air Force base in Ohio. They are carrying their parachutes.