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Jacqueline Cochran was born May 11, 1906, in Defuniak Springs, Florida. In her early teens she was hired by a beauty shop to sweep the floors. After a few years later she was cutting hair for a living, however not satisfied with working in a small beauty shop Cochran so enter in a nursing school and later worked in a doctor’s office. After a few month she began to miss her beauty shop and decide to return. Soon after returning she traveled to New York she advanced her hairdressing career soon her business was thriving. On a trip to Miami, Florida, in 1932, Cochran was attending a society dinner and sat next to business financier name Floyd Odlum. Though both had different personality, they found out that they have many common after the society dinner they two began to see each other more often. Odlum recommend to her about learn to fly to call on clients and gain
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So after she was appointed to the General Staff of the U.S. Army Air Forces to direct the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and trained women pilots for the length of the war. After the war Jacqueline Cochran continued to follow her passion for air races and aviation competition In May 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, she became the first woman to ever break the sound barrier. For this accomplishment in 1971 she was enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton. After entering the Aviation Hall of Fame she would need a pacemaker and that meant her days of flying were over. She retired to her home in Indio, California, to enjoy travel, and working in her vegetable garden. Her husband, Floyd, died in 1976, and soon after Cochran Jacqueline pass away on August 9, 1980.In conclusion Cochran Jacqueline was a great aviator and still till this day she holds more international speed, distance and altitude records than any other pilot, male or

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