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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...

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...