Susan Parker Clarke

Class 44-W-2

Born: 1918

Cooperstown, New York

Graduate:   High school

Attended: Secretarial school, New York  City

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, September, 1943

Graduated:   March 11, 1944

Stationed:   Fairfax Field, Kansas City, Missouri.

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

WASP Susan Clarke was killed on July 4, 1944 when the BT-13 she was ferrying crashed near Columbia, South Carolina.

Marjorie Laverne Davis

Class 44-W-9

Hometown: Englewood, California

Entered Army Air Force flight training:

Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, April 13, 1944

WASP Trainee Marjorie Davis was killed on the night of October 16, 1944 while on a cross country training flight in an AT-6 near Walnut, Mississippi.

Katherine 'Kay" Applegate Dussaq

Class: 44-W-1

Born:  Dayton, Washington

Graduate: Harrington High School

Attended: Stanford, Washington State College, Pullman, WA.

Whitman College, WA

Entered Army Air Force  flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, August 9, 1943      Graduated:  February 11, 1944

Stationed:  Sioux Falls Army Air Base, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Randolph Army Air Base, San Antonio, Texas (HQ/CFTC))

Fort Worth, Texas (Flying Training Command Hq.)

Assignments:  Administrative

WASP Kay Dussaq was killed when the AT-6 she was flying on an administrative cross-country flight crashed on the night of November 26, 1944 near New Carlisle, Ohio.

Marjorie Doris Edwards

Class: 44-W-6

Born: September 28, 1918

 Fullerton, California

Graduate:  Santa Barbara State College

Entered Army Air Force  flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, January 8, 1944

While on a cross-country training flight, WASP Trainee Marjorie Edwards was killed in the crash of the AT-6 she was flying near Childress, Texas.

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Jayne Elizabeth Erickson

Class: 44-W-6

Born: April 24, 1921

Seattle, Washington

Graduate: High School:

Issaquah, Washington

Attended: University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Entered Army Air Force  flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  January 8, 1944

WASP Trainee Jayne Erickson while flying an AT-6,  was killed in a mid-air collision  in the traffic pattern at Avenger Field

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Cornelia Fort

WAFS

Born: February 5, 1919

Nashville, Tennessee

Graduate: Ward-Belmont Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY Employed as a ferry pilot in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of the Air Transport Command in October, 1942

Stationed:  New Castle Army Air Base,  Long Beach Army Air Base

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

Cornelia Fort was killed on March 21, 1943 in a mid-air collision near Abilene, Texas, while on a ferrying mission in a BT-13.  She  was the first woman pilot to lose her life while ferrying a military aircraft for her country.

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Francis Fortune Grimes

Class: 43-W-3

Born: Deer Park, Maryland

Graduate:  West Virginia University,  University of Pittsburgh

Entered Army Air Force  flight training: Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, January 15, 1943

Graduated:   July 3, 1943

Stationed:   Love Field, Dallas, Texas

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

WASP Frances Grimes was killed shortly after take-off from Otis Field, Massachusetts in an A-24 attack bomber on March 27, 1944.

Mary E. Hartson

Class: 43-W-5

Born: January 11, 1917

 Portland, Oregon

Graduated: Washington High School, Portland, Oregon

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, April 6, 1943    Graduated:   September 11, 1943

Stationed:   Dodge City Army Air Base, Kansas ;  Coffeyville ArmyAir Base, Kansas;  Independence Army Air Field, Kansas; Perrin Army Air Base, Sherman, Texas.   Assignments: Engineering test pilot , Administrative flying ,  Instrument Instructor

WASP Mary Hartson was killed on August 14, 1944, while flight testing a BT-13 at Perrin Army Air Base.

Mary Holmes Howson

Class: 44-W-4

Born: February 16, 1919

Wayne, Pennsylvania

Graduate:  Smith College

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, November 1, 1943

On April 16, 1944, while returning from a cross-country flight in a PT-19, WASP Trainee Mary Howson  was killed in a mid-air collision in the traffic pattern at Avenger Field.

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Edith Edy Clayton Keene

Class: 44-W-1

Born: Canton, Montana

Graduate: Pomona Schools, Pomona Junior College

Entered Army Air Force  flight training:   Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, August 9, 1943

Graduated:   February 11, 1944

Stationed:  Hondo Army Air Field, Hondo, Texas,   Moore Army Air Base, Mission, Texas

Assignments:  Training cadet navigators,  Towing targets, Ferrying , Administrative

WASP Edith Keene was killed on April 25, 1944 while on a routine flight in an AT-6 that crashed near Mission, Texas.

Katherine Barbara Lawrence

Class: 43-W-8

Born:  December 3, 1920

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Graduate:  University of North Dakota

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, July 10, 1943

WASP Trainee Kathryn Lawrence  was killed on August 4, 1943, while flying a PT-19 on a routine training flight at Avenger Field. .

Hazel Ying Lee

Class: 43-W-4

Born: August, 1912

Portland, Oregon

Attended: Commerce High School, Portland

Entered Army Air Force flight training:   Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, February 21, 1943

Graduated:   August 7, 1943

Stationed:   Romulus Army Air Base, Michigan.

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

While ferrying  a P-63,  WASP Hazel Ying Lee  was killed in a mid-air collision on the final approach at Great Falls Army Air Field, Montana on November 23, 1944.

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Paula Ruth Loop

Class: 43-W-2

Born:  August 25, 1916

Wakita, Oklahoma

Graduate:   Oklahoma College for Women   Attended:  Oklahoma A&M

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Houston Municipal Airport, Houston,  Texas, December 19, 1942

Graduated:   Avenger Field,   May 28, 1943

Stationed:  Romulus Army Air Base, Michigan

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

WASP Paula Loop  was killed in the crash of a BT-13 near Medford, Oregon on July 7, 1944, while on a ferrying mission.

Embeded into Paula’s granite tombstone are her precious silver wings , with these words:

        “Into The Mosiac Of  Victory, This Priceless Piece Was Set”

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Alice E. Lovejoy

Class: 43-W-5

Born:   1919

Scarsdale, New York

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  April 6, 1943

Graduated:  September 11, 1943

Stationed:   Romulus Army Air Base, Michigan; Brownsville, Texas  (Pursuit training)

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

During a training mission near Brownsville, Texas  on September 13, 1944, WASP Alice Lovejoy  was killed in a mid-air collision in an AT-6.

Peggy Wilson Martin

Class: 44-W-4

Born: February 8, 1912

Seattle, Washington

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, November 1, 1943

Graduated:   May 23, 1944

Stationed:   Marianna Army Air Base, Marianna, Florida

Assignment:  Engineering test pilot

WASP Peggy Martin was killed while engineering test flying a BT-13 on October 3, 1944.

Lea Ola McDonald

Class 44-W-3

Born: October 12, 1921

Hollywood, Arkansas

Attended: Wayland Baptist College;  West Texas State Teachers College

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, October, 1943.  Graduated:    Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on April 5, 1944

Stationed:  Biggs Army Air Field, El Paso, Texas

Assignments: Simulated strafing, searchlight and tracking missions, Radio controlled target flying,  Low altitude night missions ,  Laying smoke screens

WASP Lea McDonald  was killed near El Paso, Texas while flying an A-24 attack bomber on a practice flight on June 21, 1944.

Virginia C. Moffatt

Class: 43-W-2

Born: Los Angeles, California area.

Graduate:   Fremont High School, Los Angeles

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas, December 19, 1942  Graduated:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  May 28, 1943

Stationed:   Long Beach Army Air Base, California

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

WASP Virginia Moffatt was killed while flying a BT-15 on a routine flight, October 5, 1943.

Beverly Jean Moses

Class: 44-W-5

Born:  December 21, 1923

Des Moines, Iowa

Graduate:    AJB Business School.

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, December 7, 1943

Graduated:    June 27, 1944

Stationed:  Las Vegas Army Air Field, Nevada

Assignment:  Utility/administrative pilot.

While flying as the co-pilot in an AT-11, WASP Beverly Moses was killed in a crash in the mountains near Las Vegas on July 18, 1944.

Dorothy Mae 'Dottie' Nichols

Class: 43-W-2

Hometown: Van Nuys, California

Graduate:   UCLA

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas, December 19, 1942     Graduated:  Avenger Field,  Sweetwater, Texas, May 28, 1943.

Stationed:   Long Beach Army Air Field, California.

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

While ferrying a P-39 from Buffalo, New York, WASP Dorothy Nichols was killed just after take-off outside Bismarck, North Dakota on June 11, 1944.

Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck

Class: 44-W-3

Born: November 14, 1912

Columbus, Indiana

Graduate:   Washington State College, Pullman, Washington.

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, October, 1943

Graduated:    April 15, 1944

Stationed:   Shaw Army Air Base, Sumpter, South Carolina

Assignment:  Engineering test pilot

WASP Jeanne Norbeck was killed near Shaw Army Air Base, a BT-13 Modification Center, on  October 16, 1944, while flight testing a BT-13.

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Margaret Sanford Oldenburg

Class: 43-W-4

Born: July 29, 1909

Homestate: California

Graduate: University of California

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas, Feburary 16, 1943

WASP Trainee Margaret Oldenburg was the first  fatality in the WASP program. She and her instructor were  killed on a routine training flight in a PT-19 on March 7, 1943 at the training base at Houston.

Mabel Virginia Rawlinson

Class: 43-W-3

Born: March 19, 1917

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Graduate:   Western Michigan College of Education, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Entered Army Air Force flight training:   Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas,  January 15, 1943

Graduated:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  July 3, 1943

Stationed:    Camp Davis Army Air Field, North Carolina.

Assignment:  Tow target pilot

WASP Mabel Rawlinson was killed in the crash of an A-24 attack bomber on August 23, 1943.

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Gleanna Roberts

Class: 44-W-9

Born: January 11, 1919

Sharon Township, Iowa

Graduate:   University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  June, 1944

WASP Trainee Gleanna Roberts was killed on June 20, 1944 while on a routine training flight in a PT-17 near Lorraine, Texas.

Marie Michell Robinson

Class: 44-W-2

Born: Michigan

Graduate: National Park Junior College,Washington, D. C.

Entered Army Air Force flight training:   Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, in September, 1943

Graduated:   March 11, 1944

Stationed:   Love Field, Dallas, Texas,  Victorville Army Air Base, California,

Assignments:  Ferry pilot,  Training bombardiers

On October 2, 1944,  WASP Marie Robinson was killed when the B-25 she was co-piloting crashed in the mountains near Victorville, California.

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Bettie Mae Scott

Class: 44-W-3

Born: July 26, 1921

Monrovia, California

Graduate:   Arcadia-Duarte High School

Attended:   Pasadena Junior College

Entered Army Air Force flight training:   Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, October, 1943

Graduated:   April 15, 1944

Stationed:   Waco Army Air Field, Waco, Texas

Assignment:  Engineering test pilot

WASP Bettie Scott  was killed while flight testing a BT-13 on July 8, 1944.

Dorothy E. Scott

WAFS

Born: February 16, 1920

Seattle, Washington

Attended: University of Washington

October, 1942, Dorothy Scott was hired as a ferry pilot in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of the Air Transport Command.   On  July 5, 1943, she became a WASP when the WFTD and WAFS merged

Stationed:    Love Field, Dallas, Texas, Palm Springs Army Air Base, California

WASP Dorothy Scott, while flying with her instructor in an AT-6,  was killed in a mid-air collision on December 3, 1943.

Margaret June 'Peggy' Seip

Class: 43-W-5

Born: June 24, 1916

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Graduate:  Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, April 6, 1943

WASP Trainee Margaret Seip,  together with her instructor and a fellow class-mate, was killed in the crash of a UC-78 near Big Springs, Texas, August 30, 1943, while on a routine training flight.

Helen Jo Anderson Severson

Class: 43-W-5

Born: November 2, 1918

Marvin, South Dakota

Graduate: South Dakota State University,  University of Illinois

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  April 6, 1943

WASP Trainee Helen Jo Severson,  together with her instructor and a fellow class-mate, was killed on a routine training flight in a UC-78 near Big Springs, Texas, August 30, 1943.

Marie Ethel Sharon

Class 43-W-4

Born: April 21, 1917

Forsythe, Montana

Graduate: Jefferson High School, Portland, Oregon

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  February 14, 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas

Graduated:   August 7, 1943

Stationed:   Long Beach Army Air Base, California

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

WASP Marie Sharon  and her instructor were killed on April 10, 1944 near Tecumseh, Nebraska, while flying a B-25 on a night flying instrument training mission.

Evelyn Sharp

WAFS

Born: October 20, 1919

Millstone, Montana    (Grew up in Rod, Nebraska)

October, 1942,  Evelyn Sharp was hired as a ferry pilot in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of the Air Transport Command.   On  July 5, 1943 the WFTD and the WAFS became one unit, and all the women military pilots became WASP

Stationed:   New Castle Army Air Base, Wilmington, Delaware.

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

WASP Evelyn Sharp was one of the most experienced women pilots in America, with 2,968 hours of flying time when she became a ferry pilot for the Air Transport Command. She was killed on April 3, 1944 when an engine on the P-38 she was ferrying failed on take-off at New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

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Betty Pauline Stine

Class 44-W-2

Born: Fort Worth, Texas

Attended: University of Arizona

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  September, 1943

On February 25, 1944, during her last cross-country flight before graduation, WASP Trainee, Betty Stine,  was killed when she was forced to bail out of her AT-6 over the mountains near Tucson, Arizona.

Marian Toevs

Class: 43-W-8

Born: Aberdeen, Idaho

Graduate: Albion State Normal School

Eastern Washington State College

Entered Army Air Force flight training:   Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  July 10, 1943

Graduated:    December 17, 1943

Stationed:  Lemoore Army Air Base, Lemoore, California

Assignment:   Engineering test pilot

WASP Marian Toevs  was killed near San Jose, California, while flying a BT-13 from Lemoore to Fresno, California,  February 18, 1944.

Gertrude 'Tommy' Tompkins-Silver

Class: 43-W-7

Born: October 16, 1912

Jersey City, New Jersey

Graduate: Private School,  Summit, New Jersey;  Pennsylvania School of Horticulture

Entered Army Air Force flight training: Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  June, 1943

Graduated:    November 13, 1943

Stationed:    Love Field, Dallas, Texas

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

After departing on a ferrying mission on October 26, 1944  from Los Angeles, California in a P-51 for the East Coast, WASP Gertrude Tompkins-Silver was never seen again. (She is the only WASP not accounted for.)

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Mary Elizabeth Trebing

Class: 43-W-4

Born: Dec. 31, 1920

Royalton, Illinois

Graduated:  Oklahoma A&M College, Wilburton, Oklahoma

Entered Army Air Force flight training:   Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  February 21, 1943

Graduated:   August 7, 1943

Stationed:   Love Field, Dallas Texas

Assignment:  Ferry pilot

WASP Mary Trebing was killed on November 7, 1943, when the PT-19 she was ferrying crashed southeast of Blanchard, Oklahoma.

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Mary Louise Webster

Class: 44-W-8

Born: June 30, 1919

Ellensburg, Washington

Attended: Central Washington State College

Entered Army Air Force flight training:   Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, March, 1944

Graduated:    October 16, 1944

Stationed:   Frederick Army Air Field, Frederick, Oklahoma

Assignment:  Administrative pilot, Engineering test pilot

WASP Mary Webster was killed on December 9, 1944, while flying as co-pilot in a UC-78.

Bonnie Jean Alloway Welz

Class: 43-W-6

Born: June 22, 1918

Bridgeport, Washington

Attended:  UCLA

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  April 25, 1943

Graduated:   October 9, 1943

Stationed:   Dodge City Army Air Base, Kansas ;   Harlingen Army Air Field, Harlingen, Texas

Assignments:  Tow target pilot ,  Administration pilot

WASP Bonnie Welz  was killed in the crash of a BT-13 near Randado, Texas, while on an administrative flight.

Betty Taylor Wood

Class: 43-W-4

Born: March, 1921

New Berlin, Illinois

Graduate:  Sierra Junior College, Auburn, California

Entered Army Air Force flight training:  Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas,  February 14, 1943

Graduated:   August 7, 1943

Stationed:   Camp Davis Army Air Field, Camp Davis, North Carolina

Assignment:  Tow target pilot

WASP Betty Wood  was killed in the crash landing of an A-24 attack bomber, September 23, 1943..