Lt. Col. Nancy Harkness Love’s pilot career began in 1930 when she earned her private pilot’s license at the age of 16. In 1932, she earned a limited commercial license at Poughkeepsie Airport at the end of her freshman year in college. In 1934, she landed...
The indomitable Marguerite Jean Terrell Moreo McCreery has “…slipped the surly bonds of Earth. And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.” She had a lifelong love affair with flying and her passion will undoubtedly continue to fuel many who...
Lucile Doll Wise, Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) of World War II and beloved mother and grandmother, died peacefully August 2, 2018 at her residence in Arvada, Colorado, one day after her 98th birthday. She was born August 1, 1920 in Larned, Kansas, the...
June 22, 2013, just two days after her ninetieth birthday, WASP Betty Jo Streff Reed slipped away and took her final flight. Betty Jo was born June 20, 1923 in Sherman, Texas to John Nicholas Streff and Nellie Ruth Dilworth Streff. Her father was a general...
Violet Cowden served with the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, a stateside program that enlisted female pilots to ferry supplies cross-country, thus freeing up male pilots for combat roles. For Cowden, serving as a WASP gave her the chance to fulfill a lifelong dream...
