Pictured in the cockpit of plane is Miss Dorothea Shultz, 1021 Scott street.
She is to report to Houston, Tex., on Feb. 15, as member of the women's flying training detachment of the WAFS. After a flying training period of approximately four months, she will ferry planes from factories to airports. These ladies are civil service workers, trained under the jurisdiction of the U.S. army air corps.
Miss Shultz has been ac active member of the local squadron of the Civil Air Patrol since its organization a year ago. Miss Shultz is training and operations officer and has a private pilot license.
Miss Shultz was employed until her recent resignation of the employment division at the Rock Island arsenal.
Source: Quad-City Times, Davenport IA - January 31, 1943 (photo included)
Win Wings as Ferry Pilots
Miss Ruth Gamber, whose home was at 658 East Twenty-ninth street, and Miss Dorothea Shultz, 2021 Scott street, before they left Davenport last Feb. 9 for training with the Women's Army Flying Service, will receive their wings Saturday at Avenger field near Sweetwater, Tex., it was announced today through the Associated Press. A class of 112 women pilots will be graduated.
They will be assigned to the transporting of palnes under the army ferry command.
Both received their basic training at Cram field, qualifying for private pilot license and when Civil Air Patrol was organized, they became active in the organization serving as staff officers at the Davenport squadron, Miss Gamber as communications officer and Miss Shultz as assistant operations officer and flight leader. They had been employed at Rock Island arseanl before joining the WAFS.
Source: The Daily Times, [Davenport, Ia] August 6, 1943 (photo included)
