July 18
WASP Lois Gott Chaffey 43-2, is born in 1920 WASP Hazel W. Pracht Caldwell 43-4, is born in 1918
July 17
WASP Ellen Croxton Evans 43-5, is born in 1919 WASP Margaret McNamara Slaymaker 43-8, is born in 1919 WASP Mary A. Jershin O’Rourke 44-1, is born in 1919 WASP Margaret […]
July 16
WASP F. Virginia Acher Williams 43-5, is born in 1912 WASP Alberta P. Paskvan Kinney 44-7, is born in 1919
July 15
WASP Carol Fillmore 43-2, is born in 1911 WASP Edith K. Smith Beal 44-7, is born in 1916
July 14
In 1943, Jackie Cochran dictates a letter approving 25 women to be chosen for Camp Davis WASP Anne B. Bartholf Rawlings 44-1, is born in 1922 WASP Geraldine F. Bowen […]
July 13
WASP Dolange D’Hooghe 43-5, is born in 1915 WASP Margery Taylor Ware 43-6, is born in 1915 WASP Arline M Baker 44-8, is born in 1918 WASP Catherine M. McGrath […]
July 12
WASP Meriem Lucille Roby Anderson 44-4, is born in 1921 WASP Christie E. Carlton Warren Thuresson 44-6, is born in 1915 WASP Katherine Willinger 44-8, is born in 1919
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Song of the Ninety-Nines by Julia Lauria-Blum
Elise Raymonde Deroche was born in 1882 in Paris, France. As a child, her interest in sports began, and later, she developed a fondness for motorcycles, automobiles, and ballooning. As […]
Trainers & Heavy Bombers | The WASP & the T-6 ‘Texan’, B-17 Flying Fortress, and B-29 Superfortress by Julia Lauria-Blum
On December 7, 1944, the Commanding General of the USAAF, Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold, addressed Class 44-W-10, the very last graduating class of WASP. During the course of his address General […]