Nancy Featherhoff Sendelbach Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 May 2000; photographs of Sendelbach during her Women Air Force Service pilots service, 1943-1944; various clippings and Air Force papers, 1943-1995.
Dates
- 1943-2000
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Biographical / Historical
Nancy Featherhoff Sendelbach (1921-2009) served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in 1943 and 1944.
Nancy Featherhoff Sendelbach was born in Kansas, raised in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Louisiana, and graduated from high school in Edwardsville, Illinois, (near St. Louis, Missouri) in 1939. Sendelbach attended Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, for two years where she was part of the Civilian Pilot Training Program.
She returned to the St. Louis area and worked for the American Bridge Company until joining the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in 1943. Sendelbach trained at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, and was assigned to the Sixth Ferrying Group in Long Beach, California. She had training in pursuit aircraft at Brownsville, Texas, and in instrument training at St. Joseph, Missouri. She achieved zero to unlimited horsepower rating, so she could fly any aircraft the military owned. After the WASPs were disbanded at the end of 1944, Sendelbach went to Kansas City, Missouri, for control tower training.
In 1945, she married serviceman Norman "Sandy" Sendelbach, and they later lived with their young daughter at Johnson Air Force Base in Japan, where he was stationed during the Korean Conflict. She returned to work at General Electric in Syracuse, New York, in the 1960s. The family later moved to Greenbelt, Maryland, and finally settled in Lynn, North Carolina.
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 Matthew McCarthy.
- Sendelbach, Nancy Featherhoff
- 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 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs
- Title
- Nancy Featherhoff Sendelback Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 May
- 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