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sion of the Training Command. Graduate WASPs were under the direct super-vision of the air force or command to which they were assigned. The Director of Women Pilots worked through channels and in liaison with each of these commands and air forces except on special occasions when direct, unchanneled contact was warranted and permitted. More effective results could have been obtained so far as the women pilot program was concerned if it had been classified as a special project but perhaps there would have been counterbalancing losses in other ways. With the WASP on civilian status, full authority could not always be imposed and there were cases of breaking of channels. Militarization would have been the solution for this occasional problem.
Besides ferrying, the first duty to be undertaken by WASP was towing of targets. A group of 25 was sent to Camp Davis in July 1943 for this experiment, which was successful. Later at this same field and subsequently at other fields, the performance of searchlight and tracking missions was undertaken with like success. It was determined in October 1943 to try out a group of WASP in the Fortress (B-17) and another group in the B-26. These groups passed their transition training as successfully as male pilots in like work and from then until the end of the program carried out operating missions in these types of planes regularly without either fatal or serious accident. Other groups of WASP undertook operational duties in the B-25 bomber with gratifying results. During this period the girls in ferrying work were in part transferred to other commands and in part were put on duty ferrying the fighter type planes. At the conclusion of the WASP program the number of WASP on operational duty and flying status with the various air forces and commands were as follows: 

27
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