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WWII Badasses! Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) #shorts #ww2 #wasps #militaryhistory transcript
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Published August 3, 20231:00355.1K views
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Words
177
Runtime
1:00
Speaking pace
177wpm
Reading time
1min
177 words per minute, between the 160 25th percentile and the 181 median of 349 measured videos. That distribution comes from the 349-video hook study.
Opening (first 30 seconds)
it was the summer of 1944 and 25 year old U.S Lieutenant Colonel Paul W Tibbetts had a problem he was in charge of training pilots on the Army Air Force's newest biggest and most complicated bomber yet Tibbetts men refused to test it and for good reason the B-29 was not only much larger and heavier than any bomber the U.S had flown before it also hadn't gone through the customary years of operational testing Tibbetts decided that the way to convince the men to fly the plane
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Sentence shape
| Measure | This transcript |
|---|---|
| Sentences | 1 |
| Average words per sentence | 177.0 |
| Longest sentence | 177 words |
| Questions asked | 0 |
| Sentences containing a number | 1 |
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Transcript
it was the summer of 1944 and 25 year old U.S Lieutenant Colonel Paul W Tibbetts had a problem he was in charge of training pilots on the Army Air Force's newest biggest and most complicated bomber yet Tibbetts men refused to test it and for good reason the B-29 was not only much larger and heavier than any bomber the U.S had flown before it also hadn't gone through the customary years of operational testing Tibbetts decided that the way to convince the men to fly the plane was to show that women could do it he recruited Dora Doherty and Dorothea Mormon two standouts from the Wasps the women Air Force service Pilots to test the unsteady new plane after just three days of training Doherty and Mormon ferried Pilots crew chiefs and Navigators across the Southwest to prove it was safe after watching the women fly the four-engine bomber the men stopped complaining about the plane Tibbetts would go on to Pilot a B-29 named the Enola Gay over Hiroshima on August 6 1945
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