A fact from Millie Bailey appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 November 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that World War II veteran Millie Bailey went skydiving to celebrate her 102nd birthday?
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Latest comment: 3 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:01, 4 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
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Passed, with a hardy hand salute from one veteran to another.Georgejdorner (talk) 18:28, 1 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
I found myself wondering why no one asked Ms Bailey about her flying experiences. Was she a WASP?Georgejdorner (talk) 18:37, 1 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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The army didn't have aviation assets until the Army Air Corps split, that established the Air Force leaving aviation assets in both the army and Air force. Here is an article on women in aviation during that time. The WASPS (women Air service pilots) kept black women out while allowing Asian and Indian women in even though there were 2 black ladies with all the aviation licenses required. Her uniform insignia is not showing her as being a pilot and the WASPS were civilians and were not given medals or military benefits until 1977, over 30 years after WWII.
After further research I found out she was an officer in the WACs (women's army corps), not a military pilot. There were no military women officers flying until 1974. If she had civilian flight training she may have been the one black pilot that they allowed into the Tuskegee Airmen. There was only one and they did not allow her to fly, no women flew in combat but she was assigned to them and helped them complete their mission. Sadly this was all before desegregation because the 2 black ladies should have had those opportunities in the WASPs.
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