Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100310:14:44:00
Today in washington. we're talking about the wasps. jessica yellin explains. >> jane tedesky wanted to be a pilot. >> that was lindberg flying across the atlantic. a lot of other people were flying air races. >> reporter: as a young woman in her 20s, she sought out flight lessons and got her pilot's license, a rarity for a woman in those days. with world war ii gripping the nation, male pilots were desperately needed overseas for battle. jacqueline cochran came up with a radical idea, let female pilots take over domestic missions, the military approved, and wasp, women air service pilots progr...
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