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Nancy Mayes (1921-2016) served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in 1944, in the American Red Cross during 1945 and 1946, in the Air Force Reserves from 1948 to 1978, and worked with General Electric from 1947 to 1982. Nancy Mayes was born on January 2, 1921, and grew up in Newberry, South Carolina, where she graduated from high school in 1938. She attended Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and taught high school for one year before beginning flying lessons in the summer 1943. She then worked in map drafting for the Tennessee Valley Authority in Columbia, South Carolina, until joining the W-10 class of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) in May 1944. She had six months training at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, and was stationed at [...] Read more
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