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on instrument training squadron for Pacific Fleet Fighter pilots. Training for this job required experience with the pressure chamber and ejector seat (318:32). Another officer, ensign Gale AnnGordan of the Medical Services Corps was the first woman in the history of the Naval Air Basic Training Command to fly solo in a Navy training plane. She received the Flight training as part of the 111th Flight Surgeon class, in order to become an Aviation Experimental Psychologist. The only woman among 1000 male students, she studied the same course, noting that her biggest problem was light clothing all too large. (319:33)
Marine Corps women were also involved in aviation medicine and women were routinely asked to complete the ejection seat training program. (314:34) Through the 1960s women in naval aviation often underwent survival training but in 1967 Airman Virginia Rockhayson was the first woman to complete both the land and sea survival phases of the Survival School at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. 
(320:37) Minority participation was slowly (very!) increasing. In 1945

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On the first instance of "(318:?2)" I believe it would make sense reding the rest of the document that it would be "(318:32)" most likely as the rest follow suit.