During her time serving in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), Mary Helen Gosnell Chappell, WASP Class 44-6, ferried secrets. From top secret cargo, to scientists working on the development of the atomic bomb, to classified documents, Gosnell was frequently met by the FBI upon landing. Agents would escort passengers […]
Francie Meisner Park, WASP Class 44-10, was born in 1919 in Piper, Kansas. After the war broke out, Francie joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and learned to fly the PT-17, BT-13, PT-19, and the AT-6. During her service as a WASP, she was stationed at Goodfellow Army Air […]
Nadine Ramsey Class 43-W-5 overcame extraordinary challenges only to become an elite, trailblazing pilot. She was raised in Depression-era Kansas, and when she was 17, her father was arrested for spousal abuse. After her father’s death in jail, Ramsey dropped out of school to become a secretary to help support […]
WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE A WASP By Dottie Hines Mosher Class 44-W-6 JOURNEY TO JOIN-UP Late October, ’42. When Roddy, Bunny and I started flying we had little hope of qualifying for the two groups of women pilots then existing; the WAFS – Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, and […]