First woman to join Air Force poses with basic training class

Esther McGowin Blake with her Women’s Army Corps basic training class in May 1944 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Blake became the first woman to enlist in the active-duty Air Force in July 1948. (Maxwell Air Force Base and the Air University History Office courtesy photo)

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