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Audio recording (original)

 Item — Box: WV-ACO 05
Identifier: WV 0185- Series 2- Item Item 1-2

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Documents Susie Bain's early life, school experiences, her military service and its relation to her opinions and non-military life, her life in Greensboro, North Carolina, after the war, and her feelings about her military service. Bain provides impressions of Jacqueline Cochrane, Nancy Love, Hap Arnold, Eleanor Roosevelt, and her understanding of how the WASP was established. She also describes Cochrane's ongoing efforts to militarize the women, negative attitudes toward the organization and women in the military, and how demoralized she was when the WASPs were deacativated in the fall of 1944. Bain also describes WASP uniforms, including the ill-fitting zoot suits; flight training and ground school at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas; ferrying planes out of Love Field in Dallas; towing targets used by the B-17 bombers for live ammunition target practice; her love of flying; and her fear of washing out of the program. Interviewed by Hermann J. Trojanowski on October 11, 2000. Transcript: 37 pages. Sound recording: 1 audio cassette (65 min.)

Dates

  • 2000

Creator

Access Restriction

Access is restricted. Researchers may use listening copy.

Extent

From the Collection: 3.50 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Extent

2 audio cassette tapes, 175 minutes.

Repository Details

Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository

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