Mascot of the U.S. Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II
For the Thoroughbred horse, see Fifinella (horse).
Fifinella, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) mascot, created by The Walt Disney Company.WASP Dorothy Olsen wears an A-2 jacket with a Fifinella patch
Fifinella was a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney for a proposed film from Roald Dahl's book The Gremlins. During World War II, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) asked permission to use the image as their official mascot, and the Disney Company granted them the rights.[1][2]
^Landdeck, Katherine (2020). The Women With Silver Wings. New York: Crown. pp. 119, 374. ISBN 9781524762810.
^Stires, Hally (20 May 1945). "To the members of the order". WASP Newsletter. 2 (3): 3.
Fifinella was a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney for a proposed film from Roald Dahl's book The Gremlins. During World War II, the Women Airforce...
are known as widgets, and females as fifinellas, a name taken from the great "flying" filly racehorse Fifinella, that won both the Epsom Derby and Epsom...
Stakes – Canyon 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Clarissimus The Derby – Fifinella The Oaks – Fifinella St. Leger Stakes – Hurry On Australia Melbourne Cup – Sasanof...
1943. WASP adopted a patch in 1943 that featured the female gremlin Fifinella. Fifinella was conceived by Roald Dahl and drawn by Walt Disney, and became...
Lawrence's appearance in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, staged in London and Fifinella, directed by Basil Dean, for the Liverpool Repertory Theatre (now the...
(which developed into the Birmingham Repertory Theatre) on 5 April 1910 in Fifinella, and he made his first appearance on the London stage at the Garrick Theatre...
MacArthur Memorial Award Top Gun Award, Luke Air Force Base Order of Fifinella Award – Champion of the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) (1978) Thomas...
on RAF fighters. In the same novel, Dahl called the wives of gremlins "Fifinellas", their male children "Widgets", and their female children "Flibbertigibbets"...
struck by King George V's horse, Anmer, she died four days later. 1916: Fifinella, who also won The Oaks, is the most recent (as of 2022) of six fillies...
meet riding commitments. This allowed him to partner the top class filly Fifinella in her classic year of 1916. It has been suggested he threw away a winning...
on RAF fighters. In the same novel, Dahl called the wives of gremlins "Fifinellas", their male children "Widgets", and their female children "Flibbertigibbets"...
pierrot show The March Hares (1911) and Barry Jackson and Basil Dean's Fifinella (1912). In April 1913 Blore made his first appearance in London, at the...
The last show in which she performed as a child was the musical fantasy Fifinella, in late 1919. Bolton was a versatile performer, appearing in almost every...
1915 Snow Marten Walter Griggs Peter Gilpin Ludwig Neumann 2:36.20 1916 Fifinella Joe Childs Dick Dawson Sir Edward Hulton 2:35.00 1917 Sunny Jane Otto...
History of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion. Retrieved 18 March 2009. "Fifinella's Legion," http://www.skylighters.org/wasps/; David A. Stallman, "Women...
Lawrence's appearance in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle staged in London and Fifinella, directed by Basil Dean, for the Liverpool Repertory Theatre. At some...
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