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)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 #womenpilots

@will-historysnoop.bsky.social
Author: Spanning the Defiant Sea, To Live and Die a WASP, Forgotten Voices of WWI, Eugene Ely, Daredevil Aviator, History Snoopin', Silent City on the Hill: Jacksonville Oregon’s Historic Cemetery
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)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 #womenpilots
Good to hear. Great people!
The Trail
HONEST ABE – THE LINCOLN TO REMEMBER
“It is as much the duty of government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals.”
#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🎂
Women Airforce Service Pilots
Three little kids and a teacher were shot and killed at their school today in Bend, Oregon. Two more were injured. Our hearts are broken and we’re angry. It’s disgraceful that extremists keep blocking critical, lifesaving laws while kids die in their classrooms. America can do better. It must.
From Ukraine #ukraine #ukrainiangirl #ukrainians #war #ukrainerussiawar
The Back Road
HONEST ABE – THE LINCOLN TO REMEMBER
“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”
#WASP Elizabeth Williamson Shipley 44-W-4
Former elementary school teacher.
Returned to teaching after WASP.
(4 October 1916 – 15 October 2007)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
One of my favorites.
“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
Women Airforce Service Pilots
Marina
HONEST ABE – THE LINCOLN TO REMEMBER
“We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or the other of us.”
Doris Irene Boothe Wanty 44-W-8 (18 October 1922 - 6 January 2018) Kathleen Elliott Thompson 44-W-8 (21 November 1920 – 22 April 2003) Women Airforce Service Pilots
Mary Regalbuto Jones 44-W-9 (16 November 1922 – 2 October 2004) [Back] Anne Noggle 44-W-1 (12 June 1922 - 16 August 2005) Evelyn Taylor Wahlberg 44-W-3 (5 March 1918 – 6 March 2002) ...
#WASP at WACO AAF TX 1944
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Clarice Siddal Bergemann 44-W-2
10 July 1918 – 26 October 2004)
Lorraine Zilner Rodgers 44-W-2
(11 September 1920 - 3 July 2018)
Mary Jane Isham Ehrman 44-W-8
(30 September 1919 – 23 November 2003) ...