Sherman Grinberg Film Library
WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) graduate in December 1944
VS Jacqueline Cochran, director of Women Pilots Army Air Forces at podium with microphones, other military officers on stage / VS women receive their diplomas and wings from Cochran and General Henry 'Hap' Arnold, commander general of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
JACQUELINE COCHRAN FIRST WOMAN TO FLY FASTER THAN SOUND
AT EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA, AN F.-86 SABREJET IS TAKEN ALOFT BY SPEED FLIER JACQUELINE COCHRAN. ALREADY WORLD RENOWED FOR MANY RECORD SERIAL PERFORMANCES, MISS COCHRAN BLASTS THROUGH THE SOUND BARRIER. SHE ALSO SETS A NEW...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower awards 1954 Harmon International Trophy to pilots Chuck Yeager and Jacqueline Cochran
President Dwight D. Eisenhower walks with Jacqueline Cochran on White House portico and down garden steps followed by four men including Major Chuck Yeager; they look at trophies on table / Close up cameramen film event / Medium shot...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pilot Jacqueline Cochran becomes first woman to fly faster than sound in USAF jet from Edwards Air Force Base, CA
Title "Jackie Cochran, First woman to fly faster than sound" superimposed over aerial shot of jet flying low overhead /VS member of ground crew towing jet across tarmac with tractor / Cochran in flight suit walking towards camera next to...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Pres. Dwight Eisenhower presents the Harmon Intl trophies to aviator Major Chuck Yeager and aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran at the While House
Title: "Top Awards in Aviation - Harmon Trophies Presented" superimposed over freeze frame - Jacqueline Cochran, noted flyer, and Maj. Charles E. Yeager, U.S. Air Force pilot, and trophies / President Dwight Eisenhower escorting...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Parade in New York City for French nurse Lt. Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu"
Card: "Paramount News issue no 99" / Title "New York greets an angel (of Dien Bien Phu)" superimposed over Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, the only female nurse during the siege of Dien Bien Phu, Indochina (now Vietnam), holding flowers as...
Hearst Metrotone News
Aviator Jacqueline Cochran makes flight history on May 18, 1953.
Aviator Jacqueline Cochran makes flight history on May 18, 1953.