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Canada has six CF-18 fighter jets, two surveillance planes, a refueling tanker aircraft and 600 airmen and airwomen based in Kuwait as part of the mission.

From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2015

The bill would also give colonel's rank to handsome, energetic Jacqueline Cochran, now chief of the WASPs, and one of the ablest of U.S. airwomen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Based on the records we have access to, these ethnic differences don’t seem to have affected the way the airwomen got along.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Now everybody discovered that the call to arms was being led by the famous Marina Raskova, and that she was specifically looking for airwomen.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Just as it's difficult to count the Motherland’s complete death toll, it’s difficult to verify exactly how many Soviet airwomen were killed during the Great Patriotic War.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein