Ann Baumgartner
Pilot, Military Person
1918 – 2008
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Who was Ann Baumgartner?
Ann G. Baumgartner Carl was an American aviator who became the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War II. She was assigned to Wright Field as an assistant operations officer in the fighter test section as member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program.
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