Dorothy E Scott
WASP Dorothy F. Scott was killed in a mid-air collision on December 3, 1943.
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Commander Darlene Iskra
In December 1990, she became the first woman to take command of a U.S. Navy ship, aptly named the Opportune.
Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck
WASP Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck (1912-1944) lost her life while testing a repaired BT-13 basic trainer in South Carolina on October 16, 1944.
Marjory Foster Munn
Marjory Foster obtained her license before joining the Women Airforce Service Pilots program in 1944. She was a test pilot in Alabama and flew repaired aircraft to Great Falls, Montana.
Mary Louise Webster
Webster earned her Women Airforce Service Pilot wings on October 16, 1944 and died while serving less than two months later.
Mary Barnes Sturdevant
WWII WASP (US military pilot)
Nancy Nordhoff Dunnam
Women Airforce Service Pilot during WWII
Vivian Fagan
Opal Vivian Hicks Fagan joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots; during her 1944 training she took part in tests to demonstrate that women could fly while having their menstrual period.
Jayne Elizabeth Erickson
WASP Jayne Elizabeth Erickson (1921-1944) died in a collision over the Avenger Field training base in Texas while on an April 16, 1944, solo flight.
Katharine J Densford
Katharine Densford was a pragmatic leader of American nursing as it gained political and academic recognition in the 1940s and 50s. She is remembered as a stateswoman whose leadership of Minnesota’s flagship school of nursing at the University of Minnesota provided the model for nursing education throughout the state and nation.