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One of her jobs was to help train gunners for combat. >> it was not that i was going to do any more than anybody else, because there were other females who were driving ambulances or fire trucks, working on airplanes, and i was doing the one thing that i felt i could do best. >> reporter: they were civilians, but they were the first women to fly in u.s. military planes, in all logging over 60 million miles in all types of aircraft, from heavy bombers to attack planes. >> night flying occasionall...

Battle. female aviator jacqueline cochran came up with a radical idea. let female pilots take over domestic missions. the military approved and wasp, women air service pilots program, was born. >> i thought, well, this is something i can do and love to do and will contribute to the war effort. >> reporter: another of the 1102 members was dini parish. one of her jobs was to help train gunners for combat. >> it was not that i was going to be any more than anybody else, because there were other fem...