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The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots[2] or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots[3]) was a civilian women pilots' organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees. Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots.
In March 1977, following United States Congressional approval of Public Law 95-202, the efforts of the Women Airforce Service pilots were finally recognized, and military status was finally granted. [22] Thirty-eight WASP pilots died while in service during the years of World War II, and Lee was the last to die during the program.
Ann G. Baumgartner Carl (August 27, 1918 – March 20, 2008) was an American aviator who became the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War II. [2] She was assigned to Wright Field as an assistant operations officer in the ...
World War II. Organization. Women Airforce Service Pilots. Spouse. Henry Silver. Notes. Graduated WASP Class 43-W-7 [2] Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins Silver (October 16, 1911 – disappeared October 26, 1944) was the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. [3]
Test Pilot. Spokesperson. Air Force Officer (Rank of Lieutenant Colonel) Spouse. Robert Love. Nancy Harkness Love (February 14, 1914 – October 22, 1976), born Hannah Lincoln Harkness, was an American pilot and airplane commander during World War II. She earned her pilot's license at age 16. She worked as a test pilot and air racer in the 1930s.
Pilot, physicist and researcher. Known for. One of two Chinese-American women pilots during World War II. Maggie Gee (August 5, 1923 [1] – February 1, 2013 [2]) was an American aviator who served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II. She was one of two Chinese-American women to serve in the organization, the other being ...
Greene was born in Seattle on 24 June 1920, and started taking flying lessons in 1936. [1][2] She studied at the University of Washington and served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II. [3] Greene was a devout Presbyterian, and helped found Mission Aviation Fellowship. [4] She made its first flight in 1946 when she transported ...
Bernice Falk Haydu. Bernice Haydu at Maxwell Air Force Base, June 5, 2014. Bernice "Bee" S. Falk Haydu (December 15, 1920 – January 30, 2021) was an American aviator and served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) in World War II. Haydu remained active in aviation and remained an advocate for women pilots.