Category: Profiles of the WASP

Delphine Bohn

Delphine Bohn WAFS, Class “The Originals” We will not again look upon a woman flying as an experiment. ~AAF Commanding General Henry “Hap” Arnold, 1944

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Kathryn Bernheim Fine

Kathryn Bernheim Fine February 1, 1911 – June 24, 1996 WAFS, Class “The Originals” Planes flown: PT-19, PT-26, P-40, P-39, P-47, P-63, B-17 Base assigned:

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Beverly Beesemyer

Beverly Loyola Beesemyer August 25, 1918 – 2019 Class: 44-W-6 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Merced Army Air Field (Calif.) andLas Vegas

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Bernice Batten

Bernice Batten Class: WAFS “The Originals” April 14, 1913 – July 16, 2004 Planes flown: BT-13, At-6, A-24 Training Location: New Castle Army Air Base

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Nancy Batson Crews

Nancy Batson Crews WAFS, Class “The Originals” “The Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron was started in 1942 with the appointment of Nancy Love as director of

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Dawn Seymour

Dawn Y. Rochow Balden Seymour July 1, 1917 – July 18, 2017 Class: 43-W-5 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: New Castle Army

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