Editor’s Note: I first learned about Cornelia Fort in 2019 at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. Cornelia was in the air as a civilian pilot instructor over Honolulu on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 when the Pearl Harbor attack began. She was also the second woman pilot accepted into the U.S….
Cornelia Fort (1919-1943): WAFS Pilot
Cornelia Fort is in front of a PT-19 Army airplane, a plane she ferried as a member of the WAFS. (Photo: U.S. Army Air Forces)