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WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots - WWII

In September 1942, the Army Air Force (AAF) created the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) and appointed Nancy H. Love its commander. Love recruited highly skilled and experienced female pilots who were sent on noncombat missions ferrying planes between factories and AAF installations. While WAFS was being organized, the Army Air Force appointed Jacqueline Cochran as Director of Women's Flying Training. Cochran's school, which eventually moved to Avenger Field in Sweetwater, TX, trained 232 women before it ceased operations. Eventually, over 1000 women completed flight training. As the ranks of women pilots serving the AAF swelled, the value of their contribution began to be recognized, and the Air Force took steps to militarize them. As a first step the Air Force renamed their unit from WAFS to Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).

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Jane Delores Champlin

14 May 1917 – 7 Jun 1943

Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA

Plot info: 22, 377

Susan Parker Clarke

5 Aug 1918 – 4 Jul 1944

Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA

Marjorie Laverne “Margie” Davis

20 Dec 1922 – 16 Oct 1944

Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Plot info: Garden of Ancestors

Katherine M Applegate Dussaq

14 Mar 1905 – 26 Nov 1944

Dayton, Columbia County, Washington, USA

Plot info: BLK H, LOT 42, SEC 02

Marjorie Doris Edwards

28 Sep 1918 – 13 Jun 1944

Fullerton, Orange County, California, USA

Plot info: Rose Lawn

Cornelia Clark Fort

5 Feb 1919 – 21 Mar 1943

Aviation Pioneer. Cornelia Fort was the daughter...

Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA

Plot info: Section 25, Plot 40, row 2

Frances Fortune Grimes

7 Oct 1913 – 27 Mar 1944

Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA

Mary P Hartson

11 Jan 1917 – 14 Aug 1944

Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA

Mary Holmes Howson

16 Feb 1919 – 16 Apr 1944

Valley Forge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA

Edith Clayton “Edy” Keene

19 Dec 1920 – 25 Apr 1944

Pomona, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Plot info: 2M3, Lot 11, Block F, Space 3

Kathryn Barbara “Kay” Lawrence

3 Dec 1920 – 4 Aug 1943

Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, USA

Paula Ruth Loop

25 Aug 1916 – 7 Jul 1944

Wakita, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA

Alice E Lovejoy

15 Aug 1915 – 13 Sep 1944

Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA

Peggy Wilson Martin

8 Feb 1912 – 3 Oct 1944

Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Plot info: Myrtle Lawn, Sec 11, Lot 6041, Grave 2

Lieut Lea Ola McDonald

12 Oct 1921 – 21 Jun 1944

Seagraves, Gaines County, Texas, USA

Virginia Caraline Moffatt

22 May 1912 – 5 Oct 1943

Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Beverly Jean Moses

21 Dec 1922 – 18 Jul 1944

Pleasant Hill, Polk County, Iowa, USA

Dorothy Mae “Dottie” Nichols

26 Sep 1916 – 11 Jun 1944

Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Plot info: Whispering Pines, Map #03, Lot #1879, Space #1

Jeanne Marcile Lewellen Norbeck

14 Nov 1912 – 16 Oct 1944

Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, USA

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