Dora Jean (Dougherty) Strother WASP Photographs Collection

The Dora Jean (Dougherty) Strother WASP Photographs Collection is a small collection consisting of two photographs of Women Air Service Pilots at Elgin Air Force Base with the B-29 "Ladybird" before a B-29 demonstration tour in 1944.

The first photograph depicts Women Airforce Service Pilots Dora J. Dougherty and Dorothea J. Moorman accepting aircraft papers from a representative of the Boeing Company for the B-29 "Ladybird" at Eglin Field, Florida, June 1944. Nose art of Fifinella, a lady gremlin designed by Walt Disney for the WASP organization, is visible. The second photograph is a group portrait of pilots and crew, including two members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), lined up in front of "Ladybird," at Eglin Field, Florida, June 1944, including Lieutenant Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr, Dorothea J. Moorman, Dora J. Dougherty, Sergeant Gallagher, Sergeant Duzenbury, Sergeant Lemley, Sergeant Wolfe, and Sergeant Ellis. The plane's designation is painted on the fuselage along with Fifinella. The prints are both 8x10" black-and-white prints. They are not vintage prints but are later reprints.

The collection also includes a photocopy of a transition certificate for Dora J. Dougherty, 6/24/44, qualified to fly B-29s.

Digitized Materials: The two photographs have been digitized from this collection.

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