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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 females who were driving ambulances or fire trucks, working on airplanes, and i was doing the one thing...
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