"Women Air Service Pilots of WW II and Their Service at Fort Fisher" Tonight (Well, Maybe) at Federal Point Historic Preservation Society

From the March Newsletter.

The monthly meeting will be held Monday, March 16 at 7:30 pm at the History center located at 1121-A North Lake Park Blvd., adjacent to the Carolina Beach Town Hall, North Carolina (south of Wilmington on US-421).

John Mosely of the Fort Fisher State Historic Site will make the presentation on the women.

The Women Air Service Pilots (WASP) was a civilian women pilot's organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees.  members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots.  Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during the war. Despite various armed forces groups being involved with the creation of the program, the WASP and its members had no military standing.

John's talk will focus on the women who were stationed at Camp Davis, near Holly Ridge north of Wilmington, and their involvement in the training of anti-aircraft soldiers stationed at and training at Fort Fisher.

Of course, with the virus, it might nor be held.

--Old B-R'er