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![](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-03/ching%20shih%201200.jpg?itok=0MBEI37y "Sometimes called, Zheng Yi Sao or "Wife of Zheng Yi," she's known to history as Ching Shih for what she accomplished once he died.")
![Women Airforce Service pilots Frances Green, Margaret "Peg" Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn, leave their B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft, "Pistol Packin' Mama," during ferry training at Lockbourne Army Airfield, Ohio, 1944. (U.S. Air Force)](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2017-12/WWII-Wasps.jpg?itok=Z3ugHHdP "Women Airforce Service pilots Frances Green, Margaret "Peg" Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leave their B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft, "Pistol Packin' Mama," during ferry training at Lockbourne Army Airfield, Ohio, 1944. (U.S. Air Force photo)")
