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Pilot Nancy Harkness Love and WAF co-pilot Betty Huyler Gillies, the first women to fly the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, circa 1943-1945

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Caption     Pilot Nancy Harkness Love and WAF co-pilot Betty Huyler Gillies, the first women to fly the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, circa 1943-1945 ww2dbase
Date  1944
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Air Force
 
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