#WASP Grace Elizabeth Ashwell Lotowycz 44-W-7
“Everybody wanted to do something to help.”
Assigned: Minter AAF, Bakersfield, California
(11 May 1916 - 8 April 2016)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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11 April 1943
Walt Disney illustrates Flt. Lt. Roald Dahl’s article about “The Gremlins.”
Lead to Disney creating “Fifinella” for the Women Airforce Service Pilots - #WASP.
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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Loretta Young
(6 Jan 1913 – 12 Aug 12, 2000)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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Also served with British Air Transport Auxiliary. #ATA
(29 Nov 1920 – 30 Aug 1974)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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#WASP Lois Katherine Gott Chaffey 43-W-2
Only knew her briefly, but what an enthusiastic powerhouse!
“Two years and eleven days” a WASP
(18 Jul 1920–21 Aug 2017)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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Anne TePas Wiltsee 44-W-5
Assigned: Eagle Pass AAF, TX
(18 September 1922 - 2 Jul 1984)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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#WASP FRIENDS
Ann Pedroncelli Connelly 44-W-7
(14 June 1923 – 7 April 1992)
Vivian Phyllis Gilchrist Nemhauser 44-W-3
(20 July 1919 – 18 May 2003)
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Dorothea “Didi” Johnson Moorman 43-W-4
(29 Dec 1917 – Jun 2005)
Jean Dougherty Strother McKeown 43-W-3
(27 Nov 1921 – 19 Nov 2013)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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“Life” magazine WASP cover 19 July 1943.
(4 April 1921 - 26 April 2000)🎂
BIRTHDAY
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Flight Time -The Long and the Short Of It
#WASP Elizabeth “Betty” Haas Pfister 43-W-5
(23 Jul 1921- 17 Nov 2011)
Madge Rutherford Minton 43-W-4
(22 Mar 1920- 7 Nov 2004)
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Women Airforce Service Pilots
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#WASP Carolyn P. Wood Haumerson Osmun Saas 44-W-1
Soprano who gave up her career to join the WASP
Assigned: Childress AAF, TX.
(29 December 1919 – 16 June 2006)
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WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS -- #WASP
Who Died While Flying for Their Country
n April - During WWII
#RIP
Women Airforce Service Pilots #RIP
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Tow-Target Fliers
#WASP – Women Airforce Service Pilots
In Cockpit” Gertrude “Brownie” Brown Kindig
Class 43-W-1 (Guinea Pigs)
(21 Aug 1920-7 Apr 1992)
Curtiss A-25A
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Not-So Subtle Suggestion
#WASP Class 44-W-10
Jean Moreo Terrell McCreery 44-W-10
(28 April 1924– 10 May 2018)
Suzette Van Daell Douglas 44-W-10
(10 Dec 1922– 14 Jan 2014)
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#WASP Mary Virginia Edith Estill Fearey 43-W-8
Assigned: Love Field, Dallas, TX.
TWA’s 1st woman radio operator – Link Instructor
(30 March 1917– 26 April 1989)
Birthday 🎂
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#WASP Josephine Ada Pitz Egan 43-W-5
Pilot license 1930 as High School senior.
U of Wisconsin 1935 (chemistry)
Assigned: New Castle AAF, Delaware
(30 Mar 1913– 13 Apr 2006)
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Birthday 🎂
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August 1944
First #WASP Assigned to Ellington AAF, TX
Hazel Ricter
(13 Oct 1915 – 29 Aug 1985)
Florine Phillips Maloney
(14 Jan 1920 – 3 Apr 2013)
Barbara Fleming
(30 Nov 1920 – 3 Jul 2001)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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Margaret Lennox Drown
Recruited by Jackie Cochran for British Air Transport Auxiliary (#ATA – 10 Jun 1942-Nov 1945)
Before #WW2 taught U.S. Army aviators to fly. After the war: air racer, boater, publishing & real estate
(24 Jan 1906 – 6 Jun 1985)
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(7 Oct 1914 - 27 Mar 1944)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
#RIP
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Dorothy Hunter Whittemore Beard Burns
(24 Jan 1914 - 29 Nov 1989)
Kathryn Lynn Boyd Tillinghast Delker Miles
(9 Jan 1921 - 24 Jan 2017)
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#WASP Jane Sincell Straughan 43-W-1
One of the "Guinea Pigs" – class of #WASP.
Assigned: New Castle AAF, Wilmington, DE—original home of Nancy Love’s #WAFS.
(24 August 1913 - 12 March 2007)
#ArlingtonNationalCemetery
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#WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots
Ann Armstrong McClellan 43-W-5
Joined WASP after aviator husband of 1 ½ years reported as Bataan POW (he died there)
17 Dec 1921–18 Nov 2005
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Teresa James
(24 Jan 1914 - 27 Jul 2008)Betty Huyler Gillies
(1 Jan 1908 – 14 Oct 1998)
Adela Riek Scharr
(10 Aug 1907 – 11 Mar1998)
Catherine Luden Slocum
(24 Oct 1912 - 26 Nov 1993)
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#WASP Mary Anna “Marty” Martin Wyall 44-W-10
“We didn’t care so much about the pay or the recognition.
We just wanted to help our country win”
(24 Jan 1922 - 9 Mar 2017)
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21 March 1943
#WASP/#WAFS pilot Cornelia Clark Fort’s BT-13 collides near Merkel, TX.
Among the first five women to join WAFS.
Second of #The38 to die.
(5 February 1919 – 21 March 1943)
#RIP
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21 March 1946 -
WASP Nancy Caroline Upper Foran 44-W-6
Low on gas-
1st to land on California’s Shasta Dam construction runway.
(10 Jan 1922 – 28 Jan 2006)
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Flying B-17s and B-24s All Day Can Take Alot Out of a Girl
#WASP Virginia Elaine Chadwick Jones 43-W-3
(27 July 1915 – 8 May 2013)
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#WASP Jeanette Robbins Rhamsey 43-W-8
Assigned: Marana AAF, AZ
Social Worker
(19 Mar 1922 – 18 Feb 2025 – 102 yrs. old
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