Reminiscences of Jacqueline Cochran : oral history, 1976.

Biographical Note

Aviator; interviewee b. 1910, d. 1918, and married Floyd B. Odlum.

Scope and Contents

Ownership of cosmetics firm; inclusion of women in British Air Transport Auxiliary, 1940-41; organization of United States Women's Air Force Service Pilot (WASP) program, including lobbying for inclusion of WASPs in military; work with General Henry H. Arnold; post-war lobbying activities for independent Air Force; medals and active duty after World War II.

Subjects

• Aeronautics, Military.
• Air pilots--Interviews.
• Aviation.
• Bartanowicz, Robert S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Cochran, Jacqueline.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Shiner, John F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Armed Forces--Women.
• World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
• World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British.

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