Question: The Women Airforce Service Pilots Badge is an award of the United States Army that was issued during which time period, the first wings were privately and hastily designed and paid for out of the pockets of American Floyd Odlum and his wife, Jacqueline Cochran, who in 1942 became the head of WASP?

Context articles: Dorothy Swain Lewis
Elizabeth Strohfus
Elizabeth Chambers (pilot)
Jacqueline Cochran
Maggie Gee (pilot)
Lorraine Rodgers
Women's Flying Training Detachment
Women Airforce Service Pilots
Elaine D. Harmon
Women Airforce Service Pilots Badge

Dorothy Swain Lewis (September 30, 1915 – September 9, 2013) was an American aviator who trained Navy pilots and flew with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program during World War II.
 She was also an artist who created a series of cast-bronze sculptures of WASP pilots for various World War II memorial sites.
Elizabeth "Betty" Strohfus (November 19, 1919 – March 6, 2016) was an American aviator and pioneering member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II.
 Strohfus, one of just 1,074 female pilots to earn silver wings for the WASPs, flew noncombat missions from 1943 to 1944, often ferrying military planes throughout the United States.
 She also trained male air and infantry gunners at Las Vegas Army Airfield during the early 1940s.
 Elizabeth Strohfus was the recipient of two Congressional Gold Medals for her service in the WASPs and was inducted into the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame.
 She was believed to be one of the last surviving WASP aviators.
Elizabeth "Betty" Maxine Chambers (August 25, 1920 − May 11, 1961) was one of the first female pilots in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program in which women took on non-combat flying duties so more male pilots were available for combat.
 She was in WASP Class of 44-W-3 as part of the
Jacqueline Cochran (May 11, 1906 – August 9, 1980) was a pioneer in the field of American aviation and one of the most prominent racing pilots of her generation.
 She was an important contributor to the formation of the wartime Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
Maggie Gee (August 5, 1923 in Berkeley, California – February 1, 2013) was an American aviator who served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II.
 She was one of two Chinese American women to serve in the organization, the other being Hazel Ying Lee.
 As a WASP, she helped male pilots train for combat, as female pilots were not allowed to serve in combat at that time.
 She also ferried military aircraft.
Lorraine Zillner Rodgers (born September 11, 1920) is a former Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) pilot for the United States Army Air Forces.
The Women's Flying Training Detachment was a group of women pilots during World War II.
 Their main job was to take over male pilot's jobs, such as ferrying planes from factories to United States Army Air Force installations, in order to free male pilots to fight overseas.
 They later merged with the Women Airforce Ferrying Squadron (formerly the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) to form the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), called "Women's Army Service Pilots" by some sources, was a paramilitary aviation organization.
 The WASP's predecessors, the Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) organized separately in September 1942.
 They were the pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots, employed to fly military aircraft under the direction of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
 The WFTD and WAFS were merged on August 5, 1943, to create the paramilitary WASP organization.
 The female pilots of the WASP ended up numbering 1,074, each freeing a male pilot for combat service and duties.
 They flew over 60 million miles in every type of military aircraft.
 The WASP was granted veteran status in 1977, and given the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.
Elaine D. Harmon (December 26, 1919 – April 21, 2015) was an American from Maryland who served in the U.S. Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II.
 In 2009 she received a Congressional Gold Medal for her service as a pilot during World War II.
 As a WASP pilot, she has been accorded full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
 In 2016, Ms. Harmon was posthumously inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame.
The Women Airforce Service Pilots Badge is an award of the United States Army that was issued during the Second World War.
 The badge created for the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP (not WASPs, because the acronym already includes the plural "Pilots"), was awarded to more than a thousand women who had qualified for employment as civilian, non-combat pilots of military aircraft used by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
 The first wings were privately and hastily designed and paid for out of the pockets of Floyd Odlum and his wife, Jacqueline Cochran, who in 1942 became the head of WASP.