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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
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	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

[Portrait of Nancy Featherhoff Senddelbach, circa 1943]

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