ABSTRACT
WAFS (WOMEN’S AUXILIARY FERRYING SQUADRON) More than twenty-seven hundred women were licensed pilots by the beginning of World War II, and they were not content with the limited role offered by the Civil Air Patrol. They watched as women in Britain’s Air Transport Authority successfully performed many fl ying functions-and even before the United States entered the war, membership in the Women Flyers of America, Inc. soared 900 percent.
