Paper doll book:Girl Pilots of the Ferry Command

This booklet of uncut paper dolls highlights the World War II-era Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron, a program within the U.S Army Air Force that used experienced female pilots to fly military aircraft from their places of manufacture to the air bases at which they were needed. The rationale behind the program was that using women to ferry planes within the United States freed male pilots for more dangerous combat or transport duties overseas. Begun in 1942, the program became part of WASP a pilot training program for women a year later. Because the military had more male pilots than it needed before war's end, the programs involving women pilots ended in 1944.