Marylin Koon the Air National Guard's First Female Pilot in the Cockpit
Item
- Title
- Marylin Koon the Air National Guard's First Female Pilot in the Cockpit
- Rights
- InForum, Copyright.
- Creator
- Unknown Photographer
- Date
- 1970s
- Description
- Black and white photograph of Marylin Mosser, now Marylin Koon in a striped t-shirt sitting in a cockpit and smiling while holding onto a flight helmet. Visible on the helmet is the phrase "Happy Hooligans" in cursive, which is reference to the North Dakota 119th Fighter Group she commanded before leaving for Arizona where they would allow her to utilize her flight training as a pilot, a responsibility not afforded to women in her home state.
- Format
- Digital File, JPEG.
- Publisher
- Robin Huebner, InForum.
- Contributor
- Mackenzie Daw
- Subject
- Marylin Koon; pilot; first female; women; National Guard; aviation; Arizona; North Dakota; plane; helmet.
- Source
-
Jpeg file. Unknown photographer. InForum.
https://www.inforum.com/news/4646374-Air-Guards-first-female-pilot-a-native-of-North-Dakota-to-be-honored-in-Fargo
