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Although she, like the other U.S. female pilots, was refused permission to fly in combat in World War 1, she was, however, the first woman allowed to wear a non-commissioned officer's uniform, and she began recruiting tours for the Army and Navy. She also gave exhibition flights to help raise money for the Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives. During one of these flights on September 28, 1917, she set a new woman's altitude record of 14,700 feet. 

After the war she made a tour of Japan, China, and the Philippines, and in April 1919 carried the first airmail to Manila.