ABOUT MERIEM “ROBY” ANDERSON Mrs. Anderson was born in Eureka, Kansas but attended school in Miami Beach, Florida. She began flying in 1942 in Wichita, Kansas, traveling to and from on her motorcycle. Winters in Kansas included breaking horses for the Army in France. In 1942 she joined the Civil Air Patrol in Wichita as […]

ABOUT BETTY HEINRICH BERKSTRESSER Betty Heinrich Berkstresser was born May 12, 1919 in Houston, Texas. She was a native Houstonian and graduate of the University of Houston. She jumped at the chance to learn to fly after a university math professor asked her, “Would you like to be a pilot?” She immediately enrolled in the […]

Tickets have been sold out for the Dinner This is a private event for WASP families. Learn more about Homecoming. The National WASP WWII Museum is celebrating 80 years of the WASP program on April 29 – 30 at Avenger Field, the training grounds for most of your WASP. To best honor your family, the Museum is recreating […]

Tickets have been sold out for the Dinner The National WASP WWII Museum is celebrating 80 years of the WASP program on April 29 – 30 at Avenger Field, the training grounds for most of the WASP. To best honor America’s first females to fly military aircraft, the Museum is recreating a wartime party scene complete […]

The National WASP WWII Museum is celebrating 80 years of the WASP program on April 29 – 30 at Avenger Field, the training grounds for most of the WASP. To best honor America’s first females to fly military aircraft, the Museum is recreating a wartime party scene complete with WASP reenactors, a live big band, good […]