Fantastic - even with the somewhat rough quality this is history too important not to be preserved and shared for future generations. Another gem of a treasure from Periscope - way to go.
Great film. I had a family that lived across the street in my neighborhood the father was a ground service technician in England on B-17’s etc and his wife was a Wasps in that she was a link Trainer operator in Southern California in WW2. She tough men and women to fly airplanes but herself in life never had a motor vehicle driver’s license. Long after the war she complied a once yearly news letter for the Wasps, for years. She edited and compiled letters sent to her from all other Wasps then had it printed up and mailed out. Us kids would get paid to assemble the news letter which was I guess about 100 pages long it seemed. We used a ping pong table and set up printed stacks of each page and walk around the table doing correlating by hand. It took several weeks to complete. Then when completed each one was rolled up like a tube and tapped then addressed to each recieve’e . One time they stuffed local mail box’s with the letters and the post office got upset about it then they changed how they got mailed out. Her name was known as Meg Dawes . She has long past now but is interred at Willamette National Cemetery. The Oregon Air National Guard did a flyover formation salute at the time of her interment I was told for her ongoing contribution to the WASPS during and after the war. Not to many people get a aerial Fly over salute. So that’s my story and I suppose their are none left that remember her and others that did their part in WW2.
I've heard of these ladies in the last few years, along with their Army, Navy and Marine counterparts. Unbelievable that they received more recognition for their service in the 40s and 50s than in the present 21st Century society. I can't believe almost no movie has ever been made on them. Shame on you, Hollywood. THESE were heroines.
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Fantastic - even with the somewhat rough quality this is history too important not to be preserved and shared for future generations. Another gem of a treasure from Periscope - way to go.
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Great film. I had a family that lived across the street in my neighborhood the father was a ground service technician in England on B-17’s etc and his wife was a Wasps in that she was a link Trainer operator in Southern California in WW2. She tough men and women to fly airplanes but herself in life never had a motor vehicle driver’s license. Long after the war she complied a once yearly news letter for the Wasps, for years. She edited and compiled letters sent to her from all other Wasps then had it printed up and mailed out. Us kids would get paid to assemble the news letter which was I guess about 100 pages long it seemed. We used a ping pong table and set up printed stacks of each page and walk around the table doing correlating by hand. It took several weeks to complete. Then when completed each one was rolled up like a tube and tapped then addressed to each recieve’e . One time they stuffed local mail box’s with the letters and the post office got upset about it then they changed how they got mailed out. Her name was known as Meg Dawes . She has long past now but is interred at Willamette National Cemetery. The Oregon Air National Guard did a flyover formation salute at the time of her interment I was told for her ongoing contribution to the WASPS during and after the war. Not to many people get a aerial Fly over salute. So that’s my story and I suppose their are none left that remember her and others that did their part in WW2.
I've heard of these ladies in the last few years, along with their Army, Navy and Marine counterparts. Unbelievable that they received more recognition for their service in the 40s and 50s than in the present 21st Century society. I can't believe almost no movie has ever been made on them. Shame on you, Hollywood. THESE were heroines.
@@thunderbird1921 got that right