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Title	[Portrait of Margaret Smith, circa 1944]
Date	1944
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	Headshot of Margaret Marion Smith in civilian clothes.
Veteran's name	Smith, Margaret Louise Chamberlin
Veteran's biography	Margaret L. Chamberlin Smith (b. 1919) of Shelby County and Charleston, Illinois, attended WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) training in 1944, then returned to Illinois and had a teaching career . Margaret L. Chamberlin Smith was born in Shelby County, Illinois, on 24 June 1919, to a postal carrier and a homemaker. She was raised in nearby Charleston, and attended Eastern Illinois University’s grade school and high school. She graduated from the university in 1942 with a major in business education." After graduation Smith attended radio code training for six months at St. Louis University and then taught Morse code at Scott Air Force Base near Belleville, Illinois. While she was teaching, Smith began taking flying lessons. Smith joined the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) and in April 1944 went to training at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, as part of class 44-9-T. She left in August 1944 when it became apparent the WASP would be disbanded." Smith returned to Charleston, Illinois, and began flying lessons to become a commercial pilot. While there she met and married Don Smith. She stopped flying and they raised a family in southern Illinois. Smith taught school for almost thirty years, primarily high school business education.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0349 Margaret Chamberlin Smith 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	WV0349.6.002
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	900813999

[Portrait of Margaret Smith, circa 1944]

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