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Library to host lecture on WASPs
Retired professor Jeff Boshart will give a free lecture on the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II on Tuesday, March 31, at 12:15 p.m. at the Washington Public Library. In honor of Women's History and Awareness Month, Boshart will be talking about the paramilitary aviation organization that his mother, Martha Boshart, was a part of. The lecture supplements a display of WASP memorabilia that has ...
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Sep. 30, 2018 9:50 pm
Retired professor Jeff Boshart will give a free lecture on the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II on Tuesday, March 31, at 12:15 p.m. at the Washington Public Library. In honor of Women's History and Awareness Month, Boshart will be talking about the paramilitary aviation organization that his mother, Martha Boshart, was a part of. The lecture supplements a display of WASP memorabilia that has been up at the library for the month of March. Martha Boshart was the only woman from Washington County to serve in the WASP, and one of only three from the state of Iowa.
