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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 11 > Elite WWII pilot Betty Jane Williams

Elite WWII pilot Betty Jane Williams

By Valerie J. Nelson / The Bulletin
December 11, 2008

LOS ANGELES — Betty Jane Williams, who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots, an elite group that flew noncombat missions during World War II, and served as a test pilot in Texas, has died. She was 89.

Williams died Monday at Providence Tarzana Medical Center of complications....

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