Q: After graduation, where were you assigned?
Well, we were asked to list what ferry station we would like to be appointed to
and then it would be posted where we were supposed to go. But some of the
class before us, 3 and 4, had sent some people to do tow target work. They
told us it was the best ones, of course, and that we would fly big airplanes
and it was really a big, wonderful thing. But one other WASP and I were sent
from Sweetwater to Camp Davis in North Carolina, that's right near Wilmington,
North Carolina. It was an artillery school and we towed targets and flew other
missions. And we had been appointed there to take the place of two girls that
had been killed. I was supposed to not say ìgirlsî Iím
told by the publisher; you're supposed to say "women." So there was a problem
there.
Q: Tell me about the response of the ground crew at Camp Davis?
Well certainly the planes were not in good shape but they had problems keeping
them in good shape. But I think the only thing I would say against them is
that, you know, the Form 1. They keep a record. After a pilot flies a plane
if there's something wrong they write it down. And it's supposed to be taken
off the flight line until thatís fixed. Well, what they would do was not
ground the plane, theyíd just write what the problem was and off it
would go. And if you didnít read it beforehand, you didnít
realize that, you know, something was about to fall off or quit or something.
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