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[Women Airforce Service Pilots battledress jacket, 1944]

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Title	[Women Airforce Service Pilots battledress jacket, 1944]
Date	1944
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	Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Santiago blue battledress jacket with two patch pockets, blue plastic buttons covered by a closure flap, waistband buttoned on the left sideW.A.S.P." pin on right collar, WASP wings above left pocket flap, and Fifinella patch on the left pocket, 1944. Missing wing and propeller insignia on left collar. This jacket worn by Susie Winston Bain in 1944.
Veteran's name	Bain, Susie Marie Winston
Veteran's biography	Susie Winston Bain (1922-2017) of Bay City, Texas, was a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) during World War II . Susie M. Winston Bain was born 21 July 1922 in Markham, Texas, and raised in Bay City, Texas. Her mother was a musician and her father was in the automobile business. She graduated from high school in 1940 and studied home economics at the University of Texas. In early 1942 she found a job in an accountant’s office in Houston . Bain took flying lessons in order to qualify for the newly formed WASP in 1943. She interviewed and joined the WASP at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, in November 1943. After six months of basic training at Avenger Field outside of Sweetwater, Texas, Bain graduated in Class 44-W-4, Flight 1, on 23 May 1944. She was sent to Love Field in where she ferried PT-19s across the country. In September 1944, after a short stint at Garden City, Kansas, Bain was transferred to Laredo, Texas, where she flew B-26s and towed targets for men's live ammunition practice . Susie Bain met her future husband, Carson Bain, while they were stationed in Laredo. She requested an early discharge to marry him in November 1944, after it was announced that the WASP would disband the following month. She followed him to several duty stations, and the Bains moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, after Carson's discharge. The couple later divorced and Mrs. Bain relocated to Austin, Texas.
Type	image
Original format	textiles
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	WV0185 Susie Winston Bain Papers, 1943-2000
Collection summary	Correspondence, Artifacts, textiles, printed material, clippings, and an oral history interview document Susie Winston Bain's 1943-1944 service as a WASP. Letters from Bain to her family describe daily life on base in Laredo, Texas, in 1944. Military and personal papers document Bain's activities as a pilot during WWII and in post-war Greensboro, North Carolina. Photographs illustrate WASP and their planes, while printed material records WASP contributions and related organizations. Bain's oral history interview details her early life, her military experiences, and the effects of her service on her life after the war. Prominent subjects include Jacqueline Cochrane, Nancy Love, Hap Arnold, Eleanor Roosevelt, and women in the military. Textiles include Bain's WASP battle jacket and reunion materials.
Series/grouping	7: Textiles, 1944-1992
Box	1
Folder	1: Santiago Blue Battle Jacket with Fifinella Patch, 1944
Finding aid link	http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=265
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0185.8.001
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	900817536

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