WASP Class 44-W-10

Dates: May 26,1944-December 7, 1944

Number of Trainees: 121 trainees, 68 graduates

Place: Gymnasium, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas

This program was the personal responsibility of Ltc. M. D. Sell, Public Relations Officer, AAF Training Command; Brigadier General W. F. Kraus, Commanding General AAF Central Trainng Command; and Jacqueline Cochran, Director of Women Pilots, AAF.

Graduation Speaker: 

• General H. H. Arnold, Commanding General, AAF
• Lieutenant General Barton K. Yount, Commanding General, AAF Command
• Brigadier General Walter F. Kraus, Commanding General, AAF Central Flying Training
• Jacqueline Cochran, Director of Women Pilots, AAF

Master of Ceremonies: Lieutenant Colonel Roy P. Ward, Commanding Officer, 2563rd AAF Base Unit Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas

Distinguished Guests: 

• Major General Robert B. Williams, Commanding General Second Air Force
• Mrs. Ethel Sheehy, Special Field Assistant to Director of Women Pilots, AAF
• Julia Sapp, WASP Staff Executive, Central Flying Training Command
• Mary Bowles Nelson, WASP Staff Executive, Western Flying Training Command
• Dorothy Kielty, WASP Staff Executive, Second Air Force
• Other officers comprising the general officer’s party.

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