Women Airforce Service Pilots - WASP Aviators

WASP Aviators

  • Mildred Darlene "Micky" Tuttle Axton - A licensed pilot since 1940 (and the only woman in her flight class at Coffeyville, Kan., Junior College). She was a member of WASP 43-W-7, but left the organization in April 1944 when her mother became ill. Micky applied for a job with Boeing and was hired as a flight test engineer; in May 1944 she became the first woman ever to fly the B-29 Superfortress. The Jayhawk Wing of the Commemorative Air Force operates a restored Fairchild PT-19, dubbed "Miss Micky" in her honor. Micky's brother, Ralph Tuttle, was an Army Air Corps fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning the Silver Star and twice being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
  • Ann Baumgartner Carl
  • Jacqueline Cochran – Director of the WASP. In 1938, Cochran became famous nationwide for winning the Bendix Transcontinental Race.
  • Violet Cowden
  • Rosa Charlyne Creger
  • Nancy Batson Crews
  • Selma Cronan
  • Cornelia Fort – One of the original WAFS. Fort's experience included evading Japanese attacking planes at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
  • Maggie Gee - One of only two Asian-Americans in the WASP, the other being Hazel Ying Lee
  • Betty Gillies
  • Lois Hailey
  • Sara Payne Hayden
  • Mary Marjorie "Pat" Hiller -- Hiller flew the AT-6 trainer, PT trainer, small fabric-winged liaison planes transporting officers, and as co-pilot ferrying B-17s and B-24s out of Buffalo, New York and around the Great Lakes to Manitoba, and down to Alabama, flying new planes to receive armament, and war-weary planes to be parted out and for scrap.
  • Carla Horowitz
  • Celia Hunter
  • Marge Hurlburt – Held the woman's international airspeed record before her death in 1947.
  • Janet Hutchinson - of the Flying Hutchinsons, joined at age 18.
  • Teresa James
  • Shirley C. Kruse
  • Pearl Laska Chamberlain - First woman to solo a single-engine airplane up the Alaska Highway in 1946.
  • Hazel Ying Lee - One of two Asian-Americans in the WASP, the other being Maggie Gee.
  • Barbara Erickson London – The only WASP member to be awarded the Air Medal during World War II. Following the war, medals were awarded to other WASP members.
  • Nancy Love
  • Anne Armstrong McClellan
  • Annabelle Craft Moss - Moss flew the AT-6 Trainer, and was responsible for transporting officers from base to base.
  • Anne Noggle – Following the war she became a noted photographer and writer.
  • Deanie Bishop Parrish
  • Suzanne Upjohn DeLano Parish, co-founder of Kalamazoo Air Museum.
  • Mabel Rawlinson
  • Ola Mildred Rexroat, An Oglala Sioux from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, was the only Native American woman in the WASP.
  • Margaret Ringenberg
  • Gloria Heath
  • Dawn Rochow Seymour
  • Evelyn Sharp – In 1938, Evelyn Sharp was the youngest person in the United States to receive a commercial pilots license.
  • Helen "Skip" Sigler
  • Gertrude Tompkins Silver – The last WASP to go missing in World War II. She made a flight from Mines Field (currently LAX) to Palm Springs on October 26, 1944, intending to fly a P-51 Mustang on to New Jersey, but never arrived in Palm Springs. As of January 2010, search efforts to locate the crash site are still ongoing.
  • Dora Dougherty Strother
  • Ginny Hill Wood
  • Marguerite "Ty" Hughes Killen

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