Betty Chambers

Elizabeth "Betty" Maxine Chambers was one of the first female pilots in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program. She was in WASP Class of 44-W-3.
Early life
She was born in Hollywood, California and worked for the Walt Disney Company and Universal Pictures.
Career
Her husband, Army pilot Lt. Robert William Chambers, died in 1942 in a plane crash. After his death, Betty and her baby moved in with her parents ad she acquired a job as a telephone operator at Southern California Telephone Company. Betty applied to be a WASP. She said: "Just the day before accident Bob had heard about the WASPs and he wanted me to fly ... in fact, he wanted to teach me, but it didn't work out that way. I love flying as he did, and I hope to be able to replace a man to do the job that Bob wanted to do."
Chambers trained at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas and then was sent to Turner Field in Albany, Georgia, and attended the Army Air Force Tactical School in Orlando, Florida. She was later stationed at Greenwood Army Air Field in Greenwood, Mississippi. Her service ended when the WASP program was disbanded. As a pilot she flew AT-6, PT-17, AT-10, BT-25.
Her son, Robert Michael Chambers, was in the movie Heaven Can Wait, playing Don Ameche's character as a baby.

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