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#WASP Irene Kinne Englund 43-W-8
Logged over 1200 hrs. as a WASP.

First WASP allowed burial in Arlington National Cemetery.

(17 February 1916 – 15 February 2002)

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November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM Everybody can reply
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#WASP Suzanne DeLano Parish 44-W-6
Assigned: Bryan AAF, Texas
Founder w/husband of Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum “The Air Zoo,” Kalamazoo, Mich
13 Nov 1922- 14 May 2010

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November 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM Everybody can reply
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WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS -- #WASP
Who Died While Flying for Their Country In NOVEMBER
During WWII
#RIP

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November 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM Everybody can reply
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Teresa James
(24 Jan 1914 - 27 Jul 2008)
Betty Huyler Gillies
(1 Jan 1908 – 14 Oct 1998)

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November 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM Everybody can reply
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#WASP at Long Beach AAF, Long Beach, California

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October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM Everybody can reply
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Let’s try a different approach!

#WASP Bethel Gibbons 43-W-6
(2 July 1921 – 22 August 2010)

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October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM Everybody can reply
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Saddle Shoes to Flight Gear
#WASP Jeannette Charlotte Kapus 44-W-4
Assigned: Courtland AAF, Ala.- Engineering Test Pilot
U.S. Air Force 1947 – Retired Lt. Colonel 1972
(14 Jan 1920 - 8 Jan 2009)

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October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM Everybody can reply
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By age five, Heidi Porch had a goal that seemed impossible: to become a pilot when few women had paved the way.

Her story proves that a dream job is possible when you dedicate yourself to achieving it

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October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM Everybody can reply
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The “Queen Bee” in the Left Seat - B-17
#WAFS/# WASP Leader Nancy Harkness Love
(14 February 1914 – 22 October 1976)

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October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM Everybody can reply
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The effectiveness of the ATA’s intense pilot training program was famous. Less well-known is the fact that women instructed men -- inclluding on heavy bombers. Find out more at: europeanaviationhistory.blogspot.com/2025/10/ata-...
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ATA Training in Practice
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October 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM Everybody can reply
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Preparing to Ferry a P-38
#WASP Ruth Dailey Helm 43-W-2
(29 December 1916 – 28 February 2015)

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October 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM Everybody can reply
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#RIP
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October 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM Everybody can reply
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#WASP Lora. Jane Harris Cunningham 44-W-7
Assigned: Douglas AAF, Arizona
(8 October 1919 – 15 September 2004)

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October 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM Everybody can reply
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Target towing - AT-6
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October 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM Everybody can reply
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#WASP Lois Adele Bristol Rice Young 44-W-3
Assigned: Bryan AAF, TX
Rider on the Rose Parade WASP float “Our Eyes Are On The Stars”- 2014
(16 October 1923 – 10 July 2025)

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October 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM Everybody can reply
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Elizabeth Remba Gardner 43-W-6
(24 Jul 1921 - 22 Dec 2011)
Instructor: Capt. J. T. Scapansky

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October 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM Everybody can reply
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#WASP Marjorie Sandford "Sandy" Thompson 43-W-5
Flew the heavies at Harlingen AAF, TX
(18 February 1915 - 10 May 2008)

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October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM Everybody can reply
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#WASP Mary “Minkie” Heckman 44-W-2
Assigned: Aloe AAF, Victoria, Texas
Target towing
(21 June 1918 – 11 June 2004)

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October 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM Everybody can reply
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PREFLIGHT MORNING CHECK
#WASP Elizabeth “Betty” Haas Pfister 43-W-5
(23 July 1921 – 17 November 2011)

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October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM Everybody can reply
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#WAFS/#WASP
Barbara “B.J.” Erickson London
(1 Jul 1920 - 7 Jul 2013)
#The38 Evelyn Genevieve “Sharpie” Sharp
🎂BIRTHDAY
(20 October 1919 – 3 Apr 1944)

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October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM Everybody can reply
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Nancy Bird Walton-2023 WAI Pioneer Hall of Fame induction
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October 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM Everybody can reply
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October 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM Everybody can reply
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18 October 1973
After a crash and missing for 16 years,
#WASP Marjorie Kumler 44-W-1 (“Guinea Pigs”) is finally located from the air.
(11 August 1915– 2 March 1957)

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October 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM Everybody can reply
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American #Aviator & First Officer Anne Wood-Kelly
Flew for the British #ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary W.77) from April 1942 until the end of #WW2
(31 Mar 1918 – 14 May 2006)

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October 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM Everybody can reply
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#The38 #WASP Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck 44-W-3
Left wing dropped-plane flips-spins into the ground,
14 miles from Shaw AAF, Sumter, S.C.
(14 Nov 1912 – 16 Oct 1944)
#RIP

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October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM Everybody can reply
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