Category: Profiles of the WASP

Nadine Ramsey

Nadine Bernice Ramsey August 28, 1911-1997 Class:  43-W-5 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Love Field (Dallas, Tex.) and Long Beach Army Air

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Alice Jean May Starr

Alice Jean May Starr July 17, 1920 – June 28, 2023 Class: 43-W-4 Training Location: Houston Municipal Airport (Tex.) and Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned

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Virginia Streeter Cutler

Virginia Streeter Cutler November 10, 1913 – December 11, 1978 Class:  43-W-5 Dates: March 26, 1943-September 11, 1943 Number of Trainees: 124 trainees, 85 graduates Training Location: Avenger Field,

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Mary Barnes Sturdevant

Mary Jean Barnes Sturdevant September 28, 1921 – June 24, 2017 Class: 44-W-7 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Merced Army Air Field

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Opal Vivian Hicks Fagan

Opal Vivian Hicks Fagan July 9, 1915 – October 31, 2000 Class: 44-W-7 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Stockton Army Air Base

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Alta Corbett Thomas

Alta Corbett Thomas May 26, 1918- August 28, 2017 Class: 43-W-4 Training Location: Houston Municipal Airport (Tex.) and Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Camp

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Marie Mountain Clark 

Marie Mountain Clark  February 8, 1915 – October 2, 2008 Class: 44-W-1 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Las Vegas Army Air Field

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