[WASPs and Boeing Company representative with B-29 Superfortress "Ladybird"]

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[WASPs and Boeing Company representative with B-29 Superfortress "Ladybird"]

Description

Photograph of WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) servicewomen Dora J. Dougherty (left) and Dorothea J. Moorman and an unidentified Boeing Company representative in front of "Ladybird," a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, at Eglin Field, Florida, June 1944. The plane's designation is painted on the fuselage, along with Fifinella, a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney and used by the WASP organization.

Caption on verso: "WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) Miss Dora J. Dougherty (left) and Mrs. Dorothea J. Moorman accept aircraft papers from a representative of the Boeing Company for the B-29 'Ladybird' at Eglin Filed, Fla. June 1944. The symbol on the aircraft is 'Fifinella,' a lady gremlin, designed by Walt Disney for the WASP organization."

Inscription: "(PG-27: June: 44-4150). Restricted."

Date

1944-06

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Bibliographic Citation

The Dora Jean (Dougherty) Strother WASP Photographs/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

1986-12-09-A_image_001_01