Shirley Slade, pilot trainee in Women’s Flying Training Detachment, sporting pigtails & GI coveralls as she sits on wing of her Army trainer at Avenger Field.
Location: Sweetwater, TX, US
Date Taken: July, 1943
Photographer: Peter Stackpole
This is a real woman.
I love lady pilots. There STILL aren’t that many of us…I like to think of us as an elite group :)