In the Second World War women were allowed to be part of the civilian pilot training program. They were trained to fly non-combat missions in order to free male pilots for combat missions.
But they ended up doing much more, including flying new aircraft such as the B-29, to prove to male pilots that these were not as difficult to fly as the men thought.

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