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Title
[Three
WASPs
in
front
of
propeller
,
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
Jane
B
.
Doyle
(left)
and
two
fellow
WASPs
pose
together
on a
tarmac
in
front
of a
plane
,
circa
1944
.
Doyle
wears
the
WASP
battle
jacket
and
slacks
with a
field
cap
. The
middle
WASP
wears
the
Santiago
blue
dress
uniform
with
skirt
and
beret
but
no
jacket
,
while
the
WASP
on the
right
wears
the
Santiago
blue
dress
uniform
with
slacks
and a
field
cap
, also
without
the
jacket
.
Veteran's name
Doyle, Mildred Jane Baessley
Veteran's biography
M
.
Jane
B
.
Doyle
(b
.
1921)
of
Grand
Rapids
,
Michigan
,
served
in the
WASP
(Women
Airforce
Service
Pilots)
from
1943
to
1944
.
Mildred
Jane
Doyle
was
born
in
Grand
Rapids
,
Michigan
, on
13
October
1921
. In
1939
she
graduated
from
Grand
Rapids
Senior
High
School
and
enrolled
in
Grand
Rapids
Junior
College
.
While
there, she
earned
her
private
pilot
license
through
the
Civilian
Pilot
Training
Program
. In the
fall
of
1940
,
Doyle
transferred
to the
University
of
Michigan
at
Ann
Arbor
,
where
she also
served
in the
Civil
Air
Patrol
. She
graduated
in
1943
and
worked
briefly
as a
graphic
designer
in
Ann
Arbor
.
Doyle
enlisted
in the
WASP
in
1943
and
went
to
Sweetwater
,
Texas
, for
training
in
November
.
Following
graduation
in
May
1944
, she
reported
to
Seymour
,
Indiana
, for
engine
school
. There she
worked
in the
engineering
hangar
as a
test
pilot
. In
August
of
1944
, she
married
a
fellow
air
force
pilot
. She
resigned
from the
WASP
in
October
of that
year
after
hearing
rumors
that the
program
would be
disbanded
.
For the
next
year
,
Doyle
moved
with her
husband
to his
various
duty
stations
. In
1946
,
while
he was
stationed
in
Japan
, she
maintained
her
pilot
license
by
renting
a
plane
. The
couple
later
settled
in
Ann
Arbor
in
1947
and had
five
children
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Image type
Full uniform
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
WV0402 M. Jane Doyle Papers
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.
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.
Object ID
WV0402.6.002
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
900814853
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