Colorado Springs woman to receive Congressional Gold Medal (KOAA Colorado Springs - Pueblo)

5 March 2010, 7:00 am

Colorado Springs resident Millicent Young is one of ten Colorado women who will receive the Congressional Gold Medal for her service as a pilot during World War II. Young was a WASP, Women Airforce Service Pilots. The trailblazers had to pay their own way to training, set up collections to help send fallen WASP home, and after the program was terminated, pay their own way home. Of the group of 1 ...... Read More »

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