A lighter story:Meet Cornelia Clark Fort:
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loginAs a civilian flight trainer in Honolulu, she had actually survived being caught up in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while training a flight student; making her one of the first witnesses to the attack. She quickly took over the controls of the aircraft making an emergency landing. Cornelia and her student narrowly escaped as the airfield was quickly bombed by the Japanese.
In 1942 Nancy Love recruited Cornelia to serve in the newly established Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, a precursor to the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She was the second woman accepted into the service. Cornelia was killed while ferrying a BT-13A when it collided with another plane over Texas on March 21, 1943. Cornelia was only 24-years-old.
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