Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal

Marguerite McCreery of Portsmouth, Va., left, and Margaret Gilman of Garden City, NY, right, are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, following a  ceremony where former members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women in to fly America's military aircraft, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP – They flew planes during World War II but weren’t considered “real” military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home.

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