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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.

Marjory Foster obtained her license before joining the Women Airforce Service Pilots program in 1944. She was a test pilot in Alabama and flew repaired aircraft to Great Falls, Montana.

Webster earned her Women Airforce Service Pilot wings on October 16, 1944 and died while serving less than two months later.

Elizabeth (Betty) Wall Strohfus fell in love with flying airplanes in the 1940s and became a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II. She fought for WASP veteran recognition in the 1970s, and from the 1990s until her death, she traveled across the country to tell her story and inspire others.