So, instead of honoring just veterans of World War I, Americans also honored veterans of World War II.
In 1954, Congress decided to change the name of Armistice Day. The holiday became Veterans Day.
Airplanes Don't Know the Difference Between Men and Women
In the 1930s and ‘40s, many people did not believe women should be permitted to join the military. Even fewer thought women should serve as pilots.
But in the early days of World War II there was a severe shortage of male pilots.
Jacqueline Cochran was a well-known female pilot in the United States at that time. She believed that training women to serve as support pilots at home could free up men to fly combat operations overseas.
General Hap Arnold was chief of what was then called the Army Air Forces. Jackie Cochran persuaded him that women were just as able to fly planes as men.
The Army Air Forces created a program called Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP for short. The women themselves were known as WASPs.
They were required to take their own flying lessons before they could be admitted to the program. And they paid their own way to get to the training base in Sweetwater, Texas. In the end, over 1,000 women became members of the group.
In 1943, 25 women were trained to fly an airplane known as the "Widowmaker." Some male pilots had refused to fly it because so many of the planes crashed during training. Several pilots were killed.
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