B-17 bomber – Women of World War II

WAFS Pilots Nancy Love and Betty Gillies

Nancy Love, pilot (left), and Betty (Huyler) Gillies, co-pilot, the first women to fly the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy

Army WAC Dorothy Bumstead of Beaumont, Texas, reaches into the access port of a B-17 bomber wing she’s working on

WAC aircraft mechanic Private Dorothy Bumstead of Beaumont, Texas, looks out from the access port on the bottom of a

World War II WAC aircraft mechanic Private Dorothy Bumstead of Beaumont, Texas, hangs from underneath the wing of a B-17