Category Archives: Aviation

During World War II, Alta Corbett went to Washington, D.C., and worked for the War Department in the Air Branch. Corbett was accepted into the Women Airforce Service Pilot program in 1943.

In August 1942, while an instructor at Walla Walla, she was accepted into the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron.

When she joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots in 1943, she ferried aircraft, making 61 flights delivering many types of planes.

WASP Dorothy F. Scott was killed in a mid-air collision on December 3, 1943.

WWII WASP (US military pilot)

Women Airforce Service Pilot during WWII

Opal Vivian Hicks Fagan joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots; during her 1944 training she took part in tests to demonstrate that women could fly while having their menstrual period.

WASP Jayne Elizabeth Erickson (1921-1944) died in a collision over the Avenger Field training base in Texas while on an April 16, 1944, solo flight.

WASP Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck (1912-1944) lost her life while testing a repaired BT-13 basic trainer in South Carolina on October 16, 1944.