Archive images courtesy of The WASP Archive, The TWU Libraries’ Woman’s Collection, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas
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 in an accident. Margaret Burrows Sanford Oldenburg was born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. She
Nell Stevenson Bright WASP CLASS 43-W-7 “We felt like we had the best of both worlds, because we had so many different airplanes to fly and flew so many different kinds of missions. We had the same training as the
Ethel (Meyer) FinleyClass 43-W-5b, 1921 d. Feb. 24, 2006 “Teaching had always been a woman’s profession and so consequently there wasn’t that much objection, and the men wanted to go to combat anyway.” Ethel Meyer Finley Ethel Meyer Finley was
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 a woman; they flew just as well for me as anyone else.” November 15, 1919