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Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), U.S. Army Air Forces program that tasked some 1,100 civilian women with noncombat military flight duties during World War II. The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were the first women to fly U.S. military aircraft. WASP had its origins with a pair of exceptionally skilled and ambitious female flyers. Prior to the U.S. entry into World War II, Nancy Harkness Love, the youngest American woman to have earned her private pilot’s license until that time, h...