Elaine Danforth Harmon Collection
Content Description
This collection includes an oral history transcript, 9 August 2006; WASP songbook; portrait photograph of Elaine Harmon in 1944 in WASP A2 leather jacket with Fifinella patch and a flight helmet with goggles.
Dates
- 1944, 2006
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Biographical / Historical
Elaine Danforth Harmon (1919-2015) of Baltimore, Maryland, served in the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) in 1944.
Elaine Danforth Harmon was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1919, the second of three girls. Her father played professional baseball and was a dentist, and her mother was a housewife. Harmon graduated from Eastern High School in Baltimore in 1936 and then attended the University of Maryland.
While there, Harmon joined the Civilian Pilot Training Program in College Park and got her private pilot's license. She graduated with a degree in microbiology in 1940.
Harmon was married on 26 July 1941 and traveled with her husband, often getting jobs related to serology, while he did civilian war work in the United States.
At his encouragement, Harmon joined the WASP in March 1944. She attended WASP training at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, and graduated on 11 November 1944. Until the WASP disbanded on 20 December 1944, Harmon was stationed at Nellis Air Force
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (3 Folders.)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Victoria Hinshaw.
- United States Air Force - Women
- United States. Air Force
- United States. Air Force -- Interviews
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Interviews
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Military life
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Uniforms
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work
- Title
- Elaine Danforth Harmon Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Victoria Hinshaw
- Date
- 2023 January
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository