Madge Leon Moore
Madge Leon Moore January 22, 1922 – December 22, 2016 Class 44-W-4 “I don’t think of myself as a pioneer but maybe I am. I
Category: Profiles of the WASP
Margaret Burrows “Margy” Sanford Oldenburg
Margaret Burrows “Margy” Sanford Oldenburg July 29, 1090 – March 7, 1943 Class 43-4 Margaret was the first Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) trainee killed
Nell Stevenson Bright
Nell Stevenson Bright 1921 – Class: 43-W-7 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Mather Army Air Base (Sacramento, Calif.) Biggs Army Air Field
Ethel Meyer Finley
Ethel (Meyer) Finley Class 43-W-5 b, 1921 d. Feb. 24, 2006 “Teaching had always been a woman’s profession and so consequently there wasn’t that much
Elizabeth “Betty” Wall Strohfus
Elizabeth “Betty” Wall Strohfus WASP, Class 44-W-1 “But what I loved was that the planes I flew never asked if you were a man or
Nancy Harkness Love
Nancy Harkness Love Founder of the WAFS – the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron “I have no idea what made me catch the flying
Shirley Chase Kruse
Shirley J. Chase Kruse 1922 – February 2, 2024 Class: 44-W-6 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Planes flown: PT-17, BT-13 Assigned bases: Bainbridge Army
Bernice “Bee” Falk Haydu
Bernice “Bee” Falk Haydu December 15, 1920 – January 30, 2021 Class: 44-W-7 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Planes flown: PT-17, BT-13, AT-6, AT-17,
Elaine Harmon
Elaine Harmon WASP, Class 44-W-9 “It was a man’s world, but we (WASP) did something really great that was needed for the war effort …
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran – Founder of the WASP program May 11, 1906 – August 9, 1980 I might have been born in a hovel, but I