September 21
WASP Marion J. Mackey DeGregario 43-1 is born in 1913 WASP Betty Jane Hanson Erenberg 44-3 is born in 1921 WASP Karla D. Mogensen Jordan 44-5 is born in 1915 […]
Nancy Harkness Love: Fighting for Equality in the Skies by Heather B. Moore
Author of Lady Flyer: The Extraordinary True Story of WWII Aviator Nancy Harkness Love Following World War 1, a plethora of trained pilots returned to American soil. Jobs such as […]
September 7
WASP Marybelle Jean Lyall Arduengo 44-4 is born in 1921 WASP Alyce Stevens Rohrer 44-4 is born in 1922
September 6
WASP Dorothy I. McLean 43-7 is born in 1914
September 5
In 1932, Nancy Harkness Love Sent out eighty-three telegrams to prospective women for the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron WASP Katherine Landry Steele 43-7 is born in 1917 WASP Kate Lee […]
September 4
WASP Katherine deBarnard 43-2 is born in 1908 WASP Lucy B. Walker McGinnis is born in 1914 WASP Ruth Craig Jones 44-1 is born in 1913 WASP Dorothy F. Britt […]
September 3
WASP Margaret Ann Hamilton Tunner 43-2 is born in 1918 WASP Geraldine Hardman Jordan 43-5 is born in 1921
September 2
WASP Joalene Snodgress Foster 43-8 is born in 1920
1943: The First Women Who Flew Naval Aircraft | Hellcats & TBM Avengers by Julia Lauria-Blum
To the layman it comes as something of a shock to think of women as test pilots at the controls of some of our speediest combat planes, putting through their […]
September 1
In 1942, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her column ‘My Day’, “We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women […]