Civilian Pilot Training Program

It was going to be really hard to stay out of a world war, but the citizens in general just didn't have an appetite for entering a war.

And so the government had launched a civilian pilot training program that they allowed one woman in for every like 10 men and it was it was kind of under the disguise of training men to be pilots because they knew that their involvement in the war was basically going to be inevitable but they also didn't want it to appear like they were ramping up for war preparation and so if they allowed a woman into the classes you know what's that can't be a war preparation program because there's women in it and so a lot of the ladies that were part of the WASP came through that civilian training program that was basically you know provided by the government and so that was a great resource for folks to join.

And across the country, you know, there was 25,000 women applied for the program.

And so as the program went on, the requirements for the initial number of hours of flight, you know, experience that had been logged for them kept dropping.