the Air Force sent us home and gave the pilots our jobs.”
(23 December 1923 – 8 June 2012)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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Checkpoint!
#WASP Adaline Alma Blank Adams Olshock Beard 43-W-8
(17 August 1917 – 6 July 2001)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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#RIP
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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Pre-Flight
#WASP Elizabeth “Betty” Haas Pfister 43-W-5
(23 July 1921 - 17 November 2011)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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#WASP Rosa Lea Fullwood Meek Dickerson 43-W-4
Solo 1936 – License 1940- Commercial 1943
Favorite: The P-51.
With husband ran flight school.
Mar 20, 1922 - Oct 23, 2016
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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#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)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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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 🎂
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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(7 Oct 1914 - 27 Mar 1944)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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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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Transatlantic Photo of the Day.
Amelia Mary Earhart
24 July 1897 - 2 July 1937
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#aviatrix
#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 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
Women Airforce Service Pilots
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#WASP of Class 43-W-6 – Women Airforce Service Pilots
Taking their first ride together in an AT-6 Texan
Ann Waldner Currier
(1920 – 1975)
Joann Garrett
(1919 – 20 February 1994)
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