Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "12004155",
    "label": "Final Report on Women Pilot Program",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12004155"
}

{
    "id": "12004155",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12004155",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Final Report on Women Pilot Program",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12004155",
    "collections": [
        "Jacqueline Cochran Papers",
        "Women's Airforce Service Pilots' Files"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/eisenhower/580930/580930_007_Page_1.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/eisenhower/580930/580930_007_Page_1.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/eisenhower/580930/580930_007_Page_1.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12004155",
    "naId": 12004155,
    "levelOfDescription": "item",
    "productionDates": [
        {
            "day": 1,
            "logicalDate": "1945-06-01",
            "month": 6,
            "year": 1945
        }
    ],
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/eisenhower/580930/580930_007_Page_2.jpg",
    "mediaId": "94932706f91aef18",
    "ocrText": "ADDRESS REPLY TO\nHEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY AIR FORCES\nWAR DEPARTMENT\nWASHINGTON, D. c.\nCONFIDENTIAL\nWAR DEPARTMENT\nHEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY AIR FORCES\nWASHINGTON\nJUN 1 1945\nSUBJECT: Final Report on Women Pilot Program\nTO:\nCommanding General, Army Air Forces\n9\nThe requested report on the women pilot program is transmitted\nherewith. Of necessity, it omits comparative study of experience\nabroad in various countries with women pilots, due to unavailability\nof most of the material to date; that information, including therein\nthe experience of American women pilots who served in England, will\nbe included in a supplemental report in due course. The report\ntransmitted herewith eliminates detailed supporting data, all of which\nis being assembled as a part of the historical report being prepared\nby the Historical Division of the AAF. Statistical data in the accom-\npanying report has been either furnished or verified by the Statistical\nControl Division.\nThe outstanding facts and the conclusions and recommendations of\nthe Director of Women Pilots are briefly summarized as follows:\nFACTS\nMore than 25,000 women applied for women pilot training. Eighteen\nhundred and thirty (1,830) were inducted. 30.7% of inductees were elim-\ninated during training for flying deficiency and another 2.2% for other\nreasons, with consequent lower elimination rate than among male cadet\npilots. 8% of inductees resigned and 1,074 graduated, or 58.7% of the\nones inducted. Of the 1,074 who graduated, 900 remained at time of\ninactivation, or 83.6% of the graduates, to which should be added 16\nof the original WAFS employed who were still with the program at time\nof inactivation.\nThe women pilots, subsequent to graduation from the training\nprogram, flew approximately 60 million miles for the Army Air Forces;\nthe fatalities were 38, or one to about 16,000 hours of flying. Both\nthe accident rate and the fatality rate compared favorably with the\nrates for male pilots in similar work.\nThe WASP, according to the overwhelming opinion of station\nPORVICTORY\nBUY\nUNITED\nSTATES\nWAR\nBONDS\nDECLASSIFIED\nAND\nSTAMPS\nto 12065.ser. 3.402\nAuthority DOD Directive $100.30\nSept. %, 1981\nCONFIDENTIAL\nBy WH/TB NLE DATE 6/22/82"
}