Women Airforce Service Pilots Badge

The Women Airforce Service Pilots Badge is an award of the United States Army that was issued during the Second World War.

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.

Classes graduating in 1944 and thereafter were issued the newly designed official Army Air Forces WASP wings with a diamond-shaped lozenge in the center.

In heraldic usage, a lozenge is the traditional shape of a woman's coat of arms.

It is said to have been selected for its resemblance to the shape of the shield carried by Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, weaving, crafts, and war.