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Title	[Dorothy Hoover beside airplane, circa 1943]
Date	1943
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP)
Item description	WASP Dorothy Hoover, in flight suit with helmet and goggles, poses by the propeller of a Primary Trainer airplane, circa 1943.
Veteran's name	Hoover, Dorothy Post
Veteran's biography	Dorothy “Dot” Post Hoover (1917-2015), of Asheville, North Carolina, served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) from 1943 until 1944. Dorothy “Dot” Post Hoover was born in Asheville, North Carolina. She attended Lee Edwards High School and then Biltmore Junior College (now the University of North Carolina at Asheville), graduating in 1934. After a year of business school, Hoover went to work as a legal stenographer. She married in 1938 and the couple moved to High Point, North Carolina, in 1940, and then to Greenville, South Carolina. There Hoover learned to fly airplanes with the Civilian Pilot Training Program at Furman University. Her husband was called to active duty in 1941, and the couple lived outside Camp Davis, North Carolina, until he was sent overseas in February 1942. Hoover then returned to Asheville and worked in the bookkeeping department of the Thomas Farmers’ Federation. She was sent by the Federation to be a clerk for A.C. Reynolds in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hoover enlisted in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in 1943 and was sent to Sweetwater, Texas, for six months of basic training. In October 1943 she was assigned to training service at South Plains Air Force Base, Lubbock, Texas. There she flew a P-60 that towed military gliders used for glider pilot training. In summer 1944, she was transferred to Eagle Pass Air Force Base, Texas, where she towed targets for aerial gunnery practice. She was then sent to Basic Instructors’ School at Randolph Field in San Antonio, Texas. After completing the program, she returned to Eagle Pass AFB. She was discharged from the WASP in December of 1944 when the branch was disbanded. Hoover returned to Asheville and worked briefly at the Farmers Federation. She later worked for the Civil Air Patrol and the Air Force Communications Agency headquarters in Asheville before becoming a court reporter in the mid-1960s. Hoover retired from the court system in 1978. She died in Asheville, North Carolina on 15 March 2015.
Place	Sweetwater (Tex.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0170 Dorothy Hoover Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0170.6.006
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900811762

[Dorothy Hoover beside airplane, circa 1943]

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