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The Unknown #WASP
Women Airforce Service Pilots take a
Jeep ride at Love Field, Dallas, Texas, 1943
B-24 Liberator on the pad.

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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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#The38 #WASP Jeanne Marcille 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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#The38 #WASP Margie Laverne Davis 44-W-9T
On 2,000-mile cross-country flight, Margie’s AT-6 crashes near Walnut, MS.
(20 December 1922 - 16 October 1944) #RIP

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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) BIRTHDAY🎂
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#WASP Elizabeth Williamson Shipley 44-W-4
Former elementary school teacher.
Returned to teaching after WASP.

(4 October 1916 – 15 October 2007)

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“We felt like we had the best of both worlds, because we had so many different airplanes to fly and flew so many different kinds of missions.”

BIG THANKS TO rapscallion8-32.bsky.social FOR LETTING ME KNOW

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#WASP Jean C. Parker Rose 43-W-7
Winner 1950 Ninety-Nines Air Race
After WASP flight instructor owner of Rose Aviation, Hawthorne, CA
27 Jan 1920 - 8 May 1984)

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#WASP Rosalie “Rosie” Grohman 43-W-4
Assigned: New Castle AAF, Delaware
(2 Feb 1918 – 30 Mar 1988)

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Florene Miller Watson
(7 Dec 1920 – 4 Feb 2014)
Teresa James
(24 Jan 1914 - 27 Jul 2008)

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Elizabeth MacKethan Magid 43-W-2
(31 Dec 1917 - 23 Mar 2004)
Clara Jo Marsh Stember 44-W-3
(18 Feb 1920 - 10 Jul 1978)

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Talking shop with a P-51 Mustang pilot
1943
Barbara “B.J.” Erickson London
(1 July 1920 - 7 July 2013)
and #The38 WASP
Evelyn Genevieve “Sharpie” Sharp
(20 October 1919 – 3 April 1944)

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#WASP Lora Jane Harris Cunningham 44-W-7
Assigned: Douglas AAF, Arizona
(8 October 1919 – 15 September 2004) 🎂BIRTHDAY🎈

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#WASP Frances Edythe Standefer Acker 44-W-4

“Target two”

“I was more or less a guinea pig in the B-26 & B-29.
(9 May 1920 – 3 July 1987)

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Hazel Stamper Hohn
(13 Oct 1922 – 15 Jan 2002)
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What is a Zoot Suit??
Men’s Flight Suits – Size 42 Long
No Matter the Size of the Woman

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Virginia N. Grant 44-W-3
Assigned: Romulus AAF, Michigan
(6 October 1924 – 21 October 1963) 🎂BIRTHDAY

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#The38 #WASP Virginia Carolene Moffatt 43-W-2
On final approach at Cal-Aero Field (Ontario), CA,

Her BT-15 Spun In & Crashed
(31 May 1912 – 5 Oct 1943)

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#WASP Ann Reed Johnson 43-W-1
“Guinea Pig” Class
LT. Col. –Veteran of Korea & Vietnam
Rests in Arlington National Cemetery
(18 December 1912 – 13 April 1983)

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#The38 #WASP Susan Parker Clarke 44-W-2 #RIP
Flying BT-13 w/ Lt Harry Thomas.
Loss of Altitude and a Cartwheel Crash.
(5 Aug 1918– 4 Jul 1944)
Harry: (27 Aug 1921-4 Jul 1944)

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