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WINGS
ACROSS AMERICA INFORMATION |
PROJECT INFORMATION
Wings Across America is dedicated to preserving the history of the Women
Airforce Service Pilots of WWII and making sure it is included as an
exciting motivational educational resource online and in classrooms across America
into the next century.
The centerpiece of our project is our digital archive, consisting <of interviews with 115 WASP, interviewed in 19 states on a
wing and a prayer by the Wings Across America staff, including Chief
Interviewer and WASP, Deanie Parrish.
Their stories were captured on
broadcast quality video and are now in the process of being digitized, along with personal
photographs and documents.
Once this content is digitized, EVERYTHING is possible,
including electronic AND online kiosks available for travel and upload at museums around the world.
We are also an official partner of the VETERAN'S HISTORY PROJECT, which ensures that the WASP who are interviewed will be part of a larger
resource of veteran's sites, broadening our audience and our ability to
reach out to classrooms across the world with the extraordinary history of
the WASP.
TODAY: Don't
let another day go by without supporting this worthwhile one-of-a-kind
project. 100% of proceeds go directly to the Wings Across America
Project and are tax deductible! |
RECENT AND ONGOING PROJECTS
WASP ON THE WEB: Over 2,000 pages of information, photos, digital resources, videos, songs and games--all designed to captivate the imaginations of young students and inspire them with the pioneering history of the WASP. From the WASP PAPER DOLL page, where younger children can 'dress the WASP' to the text of the orginal speeches of General Hap Arnold and Jacqueline Cochran in 1944, resources and 'outside the box' digital challenges await the website visitors.
FLYGIRLS OF WWII TRAVELING WASP EXHIBIT
Designed to educate and inspire visitors with the amazing history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII. Faces of the WASP line the walls of the exhibit and the illustrated history comes alive through iconic photographs, seven foot ‘WASP Standups,’ inspirational messages from the WASP and graphics, created to encourage those who experience the exhibit--and challenge them to “FLY” just a little bit higher.
FLYGIRL WWII app: a colorful look back into the life and imagination of a young Florida girl who becomes a pioneering American Fly Girl! I ncludes over 100 screens of memories, pictures, songs, and videos, all woven together as theinteractive WWII experience of WASP Deanie Parrish -- one of the pioneering Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women in history to fly America's military aircraft. Free download.
WASP In Their Own Words the most comprehensive, inspirational, ILLUSTRATED history book ever written about the WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Director Nancy Parrish shares unique, inspirational, personal stories of the WASP. Compleeing power point with inspirational stories of unique WASP role models For more information,email flygirls@wingsacrossamerica.org |
SEE our VOLUNTEER CREW LIST. | Participating PBS
Stations to Date: If you don't see
your station...let us know. We've only completed one mailing...we plan to do more. Also, not every PBS station is
near enough to a surviving WASP to be a part of
the network, so they were not contacted.
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- KWBU, Waco, Texas
- KNPB, Reno, Nevada
- KUHT, Houston, Texas
- WBGU, Bowling Green, Ohio
- AETN, Conway, Arkansas
- KAET, Tempe, Arizona
- KPTS, Wichita, Kansas
- WFYI, Indianapolis, Indiana
- KRSC, Claremore, Oklahoma
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- KACV, Amarillo, TX
- KWCM, Appleton, MN
- WKYU, Bowling Green, KY
- WKNO, Memphis, TN
- WNIN, Evansville, IN
- WGCU, Ft. Meyers, FL
- WXXI, Rochester, NY
- WNIT, Elkhart/South Bend, Indiana
- KSYS, Southern Oregon PBS
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- South Carolina Educational TV
- Detroit Public Television
- WVPT, Harrisonburg, VA
- KTXT, Lubbock, TX
- WQPT, Moline, Illinois
- Prairie Public TV, Fargo, ND
- WGTE, Toledo, Ohio
- KOCV, Odessa, TX
- KTOO, Juneau, Alaska
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