Category Archives: Military

When she joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots in 1943, she ferried aircraft, making 61 flights delivering many types of planes.

WASP Dorothy F. Scott was killed in a mid-air collision on December 3, 1943.

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 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.

Webster earned her Women Airforce Service Pilot wings on October 16, 1944 and died while serving less than two months later.

WWII WASP (US military pilot)

Women Airforce Service Pilot during WWII

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.

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.