The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual violence, physical violence, and gender discrimination.

In 1944, Fritzi arrives in her quarters and finds a downtrodden mood in the barracks. A letter on her bed states that the WASP program is closing on December 20, 1944. Now that enough male pilots have been trained, women pilots are no longer needed. The army currently needs foot soldiers, and civilian flight instructors who previously contributed to the war effort by training pilots can now be drafted. To avoid being sent to the front, some of the male flight instructors want to take over the WASPs’ roles, claiming that it is not patriotic for women to “take” jobs from men. 

Efforts to integrate the WASPs into the military are also soon defeated, meaning that the WASPs and their families will receive none of the benefits from the GI Bill, or any other medical support awaiting male veterans after the war.

Billy writes to Fritzi and apologizes for the news about the WASPs. He says it’s a bad deal. He tells her he loves her for the first time.