Aline ‘Pat’ Rhonie | Pilot, Artist, WAFS Original by Julia Lauria-Blum
Aline ‘Pat’ Rhonie was a pioneering pilot who learned to fly in 1930 in Reno, Nevada and on Long Island at Roosevelt Field during the ‘Golden Age of Aviation’. By […]
October 31
By 1944, the WASP Program had trained 1,428 women pilots.
October 30
WASP Mary E. Jackson Kinney, 44-8 is born in 1912
October 29
WASP Betty C. Tackaberry Blake, 43-1 is born in 1920
October 28
In 1941, General Arnold and Jacqueline Cochran have their first meeting. General Arnold believes that Cochran should develop a plan for training women it fly military aircraft. WASP Frances L. […]
October 27
WASP Verda-Mae Lowe Jennings, 44-2 is born in 1915 WASP Ann Gift Tucker Dula, 44-4, is born in 1927
October 26
WASP Rita Moynahan McArdle, 43-2 is born in 1918 WASP Frances Green Kari, 43-5 is born in 1921 WASP Gertrude Tompkins-Silver, 43-7 is born in 1914 WASP Wilma L. Miller, […]
October 25
WASP Muriel L. Lindstrom Segall, 44-2 is born in 1919 WASP Cecily E. Elmes Kayes, 44-3 is born in 1923
October 24
WASP Virginia Hill Wood, 43-4 is born in 1917 WASP Lorena B. Daly Dorr, 43-6 is born in 1915 WASP Kathryn F. Herman, 44-2 is born in 1919 WASP Nanette […]
October 23
In 1944, Classes 44-8, 44-9, and 44-10 were training at Avenger Field.