[Pilots and crew with Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Ladybird"]

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[Pilots and crew with Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Ladybird"]

Description

Photographic group portrait of pilots and crew, including two members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), lined up in front of "Ladybird," a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, at Eglin Field, Florida, June 1944. From left to right: Lieutenant Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr, Dorothea J. Moorman, Dora J. Dougherty, Sergeant Raymond Gallagher, Sergeant Don Duzenbury, Sergeant Floyd A. Lemley, Sergeant Wade H. Wolfe, and Sergeant Henry Ellis. 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: "Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) Mrs. Dorothea J. Moorman and Miss Dora J. Dougherty, Sgts. Gallagher, Duzenbury, Lemley, Wolfe and Ellis. Photograph taken at Eglin Field, Fla. June 1944 prior to WASPs taking the B-29 'Ladybird' on a demonstration tour. Emblem on aircraft is 'Fifinella,' a lady gremlin, designed by Walt Disney for the WASP organization."

Inscription: "(PG-27: June: 44-4148). 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_002_01