A few WASP Liz Strohfus stories from her surprise 95th birthday party on November 2nd, 2014. Unfortunate I did was not quick enough to get video of her naming off the various WWII planes she flew and I did not get video of her telling the story of how one of the WASPs was basically murdered by male members of the US military when they put sand in her fuel tank, because they did not want women to fly (and how Jackie Cochran browbeat the women into not saying anything by scaring them with the ‘you will be sent home’ line, so no one was every prosecuted) or how live ammo was ‘accidentally’ placed on the male training airplanes and shot at the female pilots, because the male pilots ‘accidentally’ missed their targets. All very appalling behavior for ‘The Greatest Generation,’ but sadly not too surprising given the times. Nevertheless, Liz is a great storyteller and had us laughing for hours.
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