{"id":10947,"date":"2016-01-23T07:44:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T13:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2016-01-23T07:44:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T13:44:22","slug":"military-history-women-pilots-who-flew-during-ww2-denied-rest-at-arlington-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/23\/military-history-women-pilots-who-flew-during-ww2-denied-rest-at-arlington-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Military History: Women Pilots who Flew During WW2 DENIED Rest at Arlington Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a damn outrage. Somebody needs to have their ass kicked for this and get it Corrected ASAP! -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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These four female pilots leaving their ship at the four engine school at Lockbourne are members of a group of WASPS who have been trained to ferry the B-17 Flying Fortresses. (U.S. Air Force photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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First Lt. Elaine Danforth Harmon, a\u00a0Women\u2019s Airforce Service Pilot, or WASP, was one of many\u00a0women who served their country when it needed them the most. More than 70 years after Harmon flew military aircraft, her family wants to place her ashes at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Harmon, a Congressional Gold Medal recipient, died in April 2015 at the age of 95. Her daughter, Terry Harmon, sought to fulfill her mother\u2019s wish to be inurned at Arlington\u2019s Columbarium. However, she received a call from the cemetery telling her that former WASPs were ineligible for inurnment, a fact she argues contradicts an earlier decision.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI said something must be wrong, but, at the time they offered me the option to appeal,\u201d Harmon told War Is Boring in a phone interview. \u201cI said I don\u2019t think this needs to be appealed, I think there is something wrong here. They are eligible.\u201d<\/div>\n

The result is a new chapter in a long-running fight \u2014 wrapped inside a\u00a0bureaucratic rigmarole\u00a0\u2014 over resting privileges for America\u2019s World War II-era\u00a0women pilots.<\/p>\n

The WASPs emerged during a period of rapid change and progress for the U.S. military.\u00a0As the shadows of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan\u00a0loomed, two female aviators, Nancy Harkness Love and Jacqueline Cochrane, proposed two separate plans to train\u00a0female pilots in the event of American entry into the war.<\/p>\n

In Europe, wartime necessities prompted Allied nations to enlist the service of female pilots. In Britain,\u00a0Air Transport Auxiliary women ferried planes around the nation \u2014 with some American women joining the fray. Soviet women in 1942 became the first to fly combat missions.<\/p>\n

Yet, back in the United States, Cochrane and Love struggled to get their programs off the ground, finally receiving permission to start recruiting in September 1942.<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a damn outrage. Somebody needs to have their ass kicked for this and get it Corrected ASAP! -SF   First Lt. Elaine Danforth Harmon, a\u00a0Women\u2019s Airforce Service Pilot, or WASP, was one of many\u00a0women who served their country when it needed them the most. More than 70 years after Harmon flew military aircraft,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,475,1286,2820,1860,1911,1899],"tags":[3964,3913,3965,3966,3967],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}