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Pearl Laska as WASP trainee
Photographer: Collection of Bessewisser99 via Wikimedia Commons
Taken: Circa 1944
Caption: Pearl Laska as WASP trainee
Additional Description: In 1946 she was first woman to solo a single-engine airplane (a 1939 Piper J4) up the Alaska Highway. The FAA recognized her achievements as a pioneer Alaska aviator in 2006.
Submitted: August 9, 2021, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p602925
File Size: 0.659 Megabytes

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