Nancy Love, the WASP executive director of the Air Traffic Control ferrying division was previous director of Women Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAF), and the youngest woman in the U.S. to earn a private pilot’s license, qualifying for her commercial license at just 16. Her husband, Robert Love, an Air Corps Reserve Major, used his connections to help Nancy establish the WAF. Nancy met Jacqueline Cochran at Roosevelt Field, where many of the early aviators lived because there was a train service from Manhattan that provided convenient transportation. Love ran all administrative duties for her program which contained 25 women when it began, and expanded her administrative duties when the Cochran’s program, the Women Ferrying Training Detachment joined, creating the new WASP program, which was disbanded in 1944.

In 1979 Nancy Love was awarded the Air Medal for her wartime efforts,yet sadly passed three years before the WASPs were recognized for their service, and officially declared military veterans.