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Title
[Portrait
of
Nancy
Featherhoff
Senddelbach
,
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
Portrait
of
WASP
Nancy
Featheroff
Senddelbach
in
A-2
leather
jacket
with
Fifinella
patch
,
circa
1943
.
Veteran's name
Sendelbach, Nancy Featherhoff
Veteran's biography
Nancy
Featherhoff
Sendelbach
(1921-2009)
served
in the
Women
Airforce
Service
Pilots
(WASP)
in
1943
and
1944
.
Nancy
Featherhoff
Sendelbach
was
born
in
Kansas
,
raised
in
Oklahoma
,
Kansas
, and
Louisiana
, and
graduated
from
high
school
in
Edwardsville
,
Illinois
,
(near
St
.
Louis
,
Missouri)
in
1939
.
Sendelbach
attended
Northwestern
State
University
in
Natchitoches
,
Louisiana
, for
two
years
where
she was
part
of the
Civilian
Pilot
Training
Program
. She
returned
to the
St
.
Louis
area
and
worked
for the
American
Bridge
Company
until
joining
the
Women
Airforce
Service
Pilots
(WASP)
in
1943
.
Sendelbach
trained
at
Avenger
Field
in
Sweetwater
,
Texas
, and was
assigned
to the
Sixth
Ferrying
Group
in
Long
Beach
,
California
. She had
training
in
pursuit
aircraft
at
Brownsville
,
Texas
, and in
instrument
training
at
St
.
Joseph
,
Missouri
. She
achieved
zero
to
unlimited
horsepower
rating
,
so
she
could
fly
any
aircraft
the
military
owned
.
After
the
WASPs
were
disbanded
at the
end
of
1944
,
Sendelbach
went
to
Kansas
City
,
Missouri
, for
control
tower
training
. In
1945
, she
married
serviceman
Norman
“Sandy”
Sendelbach
, and they
later
lived
with their
young
daughter
at
Johnson
Air
Force
Base
in
Japan
,
where
he was
stationed
during
the
Korean
Conflict
. She
returned
to
work
at
General
Electric
in
Syracuse
,
New
York
, in the
1960s
. The
family
later
moved
to
Greenbelt
,
Maryland
, and
finally
settled
in
Lynn
,
North
Carolina
.
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
WV0168 Nancy Featherhoff Sendelbach Papers
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
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above
for
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to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0168.6.001
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
900811472
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