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WHILE THE FEMINIST NINNIES AT WELLESLEY GET THEIR VAPORS OVER A SILLY STATUE THESE HEROIC WOMEN DID WHAT WAS CONSIDERED MEN’S WORK….RSK
During the years, I have been asked to give many, many WAFS- WASP WWII presentations … been inducted into several prestigious “Hall of Fame” type honors, and been featured in newspapers, books and magazine articles – but the bottom line for me is – “What does my Lord think of me!” Florene Miller Watson, WAFS
Florene Miller Watson was born on December 7, l920 in San Angelo, Texas to Thomas L. and Flora Theis Miller. Her father was a watchmaker and owner of a jewelry store chain in the Odessa, Texas area. Florene became fascinated with planes when at the age of 8 she took her first airplane ride in a WWI Barnstormer’s open-cockpit plane at Big Lake. “My father and I shared our exhilaration for airplanes.” When she was a college sophomore, her father purchased a Luscombe airplane so his family could learn to fly. He anticipated the United States going to war with Germany and wanted his eldest children to contribute to the war effort as aviators.
By age 19, Florene had finished flight school and completed her first solo flight. During the next 2 years, Florene obtained her commercial license, trained in aerobatics, and earned ground-school and flight instructor ratings. She was teaching civilian men enrolled in the government-sponsored War Training Program to fly in Odessa, Texas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on her 21st birthday. Soon afterward she and her younger brother volunteered for service in the Army Air Corps.