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Lillian Ward
1884–1979

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir #WritingCommunity #AviationHistory #transatlantic
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"Out of Sight" made Jennifer Lopez as an actress!

Solidified her credentials.

After that she was no longer the pop wannabe "Fly girl dancer" from the "In Living Color" sketch show.

#jennyontheblock #flygirls

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I hope Josie is doing well. #InLivingColor #FlyGirls

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Even a P-38 Makes a #WASP Look Good
Class: 44-W-4
Flora Belle Smith Reese
(21 Oct 1924 – 1 Dec 2014
Dorothy Jones Allen
(5 Nov 1918 – 1 Oct 2006)
Women Airforce Service Pilots

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots
Violet Wierzbicki 43-W-4
Assigned: Romulus AAF, Michigan
“I enjoyed everything about it.”
(3 December 1916 - 17 April 2010)

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots
Winifred Jean Wildman 44-W-4T
After WASP served in Germany and Japan with the American Red Cross.
(26 March 1907 – 27 March 2003)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots
Elizabeth Williamson Shipley 44-W-4
Former elementary school teacher. Returned to teaching after WASP.
(4 October 1916 – 15 October 2007)

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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18 February 1944
#The38 #WASP Mary Ann “Marian” Toevs 43-W-8
Engineering test pilot-Lemoore AAF ,CA.
Died in crash of BT-13 near San Jose, CA.
(13 May 1917 – 18 February 1944)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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16 Feb 1943 - #WASP Hazel Ying Lee Louie 43-W-4
One of #The38 WASP to die flying in WWII
Receives Her Women Airforce Service Pilots
Acceptance Telegram
(25 Aug 1912 – 25 Nov 1944)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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Happy Birthday & #ValentinesDay
#WAFS/#WASP Leader Nancy Harkness Love
(14 February 1914-22 October 1976)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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A Birthday to Remember
Happy #ValentinesDay #Birthday Mary Anita "Neta" Snook
She taught Amelia Earhart how to fly
(14 February 1896—23 March 1991)

#AviationHistory @WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP – Women Airforce Service Pilots
Mary C. Wilson McConkey) 43-W-4
Assigned: New Castle AAF, Delaware.
(24 February 1921 – 26 March 2008)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots

Virginia “Ginny” Wilson Hammond (43-W-5)
Assigned to Romulus AAF, Detroit, MI.
(12 August 1921 - 1 March 1988)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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Happy Birthday 🎂

#WASP Virginia “Ginger” Sweet Disbrow 43-W-4
Favorite plane” P-51 “a honey to fly.”
Flt. Instructor.
30 years Air Force Reserve – Lt. Col.
12 Feb 1921- 12 Jul 2009
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots
Jane Wilson Patch-Crowder 43-W-6
After graduation assigned to Love Field in Dallas.
(1918-1979
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots

Margaret Ellen Wimberly Campbell 44-W-7
Assigned: Columbus AAF, Mississippi.
(22 November 1923 - 15 October 2018)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots
Wilda Winfield Allison McCurrach 44-W-8
Assigned to Frederick AAF, Oklahoma.
(5 October 1920 - 14 February 2003)

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir #WW2

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Trained black pilots and mechanics. Some became Tuskegee Airmen.
(22 Jan 1906 – 18 July 1992)
#AviationHistory #BlackHistoryMonth @WomenInAviation @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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Women Airforce Service Pilots

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots

Kathryn Jewell Kleinecke 44-W-9
Assigned: Harlingen AAF, Texas
(22 December 1923 – 7 June 2020)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP -Women Airforce Service Pilots

Frances Winter Brookings 44-W-7
Assigned: Columbus AAF, Mississippi.
After WASP: English teacher-librarian.
(2 Jul 1917 - 12 Apr 2018)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP – Women Airforce Service Pilots

Adeline Rose Wolak Ellison 43-W-6
Assigned: 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach, California
(26 September 1919 – 10 June 2017)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP Faye Wolfe Olney 44-W-4
Assigned: Romulus AAF, Michigan
(27 July 1921 – December 1986)

Women Airforce Service Pilots

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP Lila Carleton Moore Mann 44-W-7
Assigned: Minter AAF, California
School teacher helping many children for many years
(17 Nov 1919 – 21 Dec 2007)

Women Airforce Service Pilots

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP June Swift Wolfe Leckie 44-W-10
Assigned: Perrin AAF, Texas.
(23 May 1922 - 30 September 2012)

Women Airforce Service Pilots

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP Trainee Doris Estella Rhoads Lockness 43-W-4
Listed in the Women in Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame & Smithsonian Institution- Aviation.
(2 February 1910 – 30 January 2017)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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High Flying!

“Just do the best you can”
#Wasp Bernice “Bee” Falk Haydu 44-W-7
(15 December 1920 – 30 January 2021)

Women Airforce Service Pilots

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WASP Kay Alspach 44-W-6
Died when car driven by actor John O’Malley left the Pacific Coast Highway and fell into the sea.
WASP Hayden Head also died car.
(1921 - 27 February 1945)

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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#WAFS/#WASP Florene Miller Watson
WASP Commander of the 5th Squadron at Dallas for over a year.
Qualified B-25, P-38, C-47, and more.
(7 December 1920 – 4 February 2014)

@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

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