Bernetta Adams Miller (1884-1972), US aviator, in a Bleriot airplane in 1911. Miller studied in Geneseo, New York state, and then in Canton, Ohio, bef

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Bernetta Adams Miller (1884-1972), US aviator, in a Bleriot airplane in 1911. Miller studied in Geneseo, New York state, and then in Canton, Ohio, before moving to New York City. She took flying lessons at the Moisant Aviation School, Long Island, New York. She qualified as a pilot on 25 September 1912, the fifth woman in the USA to qualify as a pilot. She gave up flying by 1913. During World War I, she worked as a volunteer at the front for the YMCA and was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government.

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