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 […]
Shirley C. Kruse Class 44-W-6 “My time spent as a WASP was a never to be forgotten adventure, a great preparation for the wonderful experience of all that my life was to become.” – Shirley C. Kruse Shirley Kruse’s passion and interest in aviation began as a child. […]
Mary “Marty” Wyall Class 44-W-10 “We didn’t care so much about the pay or the recognition, We just wanted to help our country win the war.” – Marty Wyall By her own recollection, being a WASP was the best thing that happened to Marty Wyall. Wyall graduated from […]
Florence G. “Shutsy” Reynolds Class 44-W-5 Reynolds, though she does not fly anymore, is often awakened by dreams where she is back in the sky, at the controls of a military airplane, remembering the WASP motto, “We live in the wind and sand and our eyes are on the […]
Dawn Seymour Class 43-W-5 “I wanted to serve my country in a very active way.”- Dawn Seymour Dawn Seymour graduated Cornell University in the Class of 1939. She was 22 years old, and while she had not had tremendous exposure to flying, she had a favorite tree to […]