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07/05/11 editor@sweetwaterreporter.com wasp museum.jpg The National WASP WWII Museum celebrated the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII at WASP HOMECOMING 2011 on May 28, of Memorial Day Weekend. Approximately 1,000 people from all around the U.S. attended the day-long event. Twenty-two WASP were present who trained at Avenger Field in 1943-44 to become the first women to ...
05/27/11 Carla Howard Horowitz joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots in 1944 because, as she says, "I wanted to be a hero."
04/16/11 She flew 19 different types of aircraft, logging enough miles with the Women Airforce Service Pilots to have flown around the world 55 times by her estimate. She was the subject of a documentary film, 'Wings of Silver.' Violet Cowden never lost her love of flying, a passion born when she was a young girl envying the hawks soaring above her family's South Dakota farm in the 1920s.
06/12/10 In March, almost 70 years after the fact, the women who servedas Women Airforce Service Pilots on the homefront of World War IIcollected Congressional Gold Medals in ceremonies in Washington,D.C.
05/13/10 Suzanne DeLano Parish, the granddaughter of Upjohn Co. founder W.E. Upjohn and a well-known aviator who recently was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal for her service with the Women Airforce Service Pilots, died Wednesday in Palm Springs, Calif., where she had spent the winter. She was 87.
05/09/10 As a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, Ethel Sheffler is part of an elite group of trailblazing aviators who served their country during World War II.
04/01/10 It's a testament to the caliber of the Women Airforce Service Pilots that their Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on March 10 drew the biggest indoor crowd the U.S. Capitol has ever seen.
03/18/10 Lois Nash never really thought about being a pioneer, she just wanted to fly and during World War II, the military gave her the opportunity in WASP, the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
03/18/10 Several local members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots received Congressional Gold Medal in Washington, D.C.
03/16/10 Lois Auchterlonie learned to fly, risked her life and earned a proud place in American history. As a member of the corps of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, she was among the first female fliers of U.S. military planes.
03/13/10 (WOMENSENEWS)-- Cheers Female pilots who flew planes during World War II got long-overdue recognition March 10 when they received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress, in a ceremony on Capitol Hill, The Kansas City Star reported March 10. About 200 women who served as Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, were on hand. Most of the women are now in their ...
03/11/10 Mary Burch Nirmaier was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II. 1 day ago Missouri also considering ban. 1 day ago
03/10/10 Two Jackson County women are being honored today in the nation's capital for their contributions as Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.
03/10/10 Jane Doyle, of Grand Rapids, was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. View photo gallery She was a little girl then, but the August day in 1927 that aviator Charles Lindbergh touched down in Grand Rapids made a big impression on Jane Doyle.
03/10/10 MANCHESTER -- A World War II oversight will be corrected in Washington, D.C., today when surviving members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots are recognized for their wartime service.
03/10/10 The Congressional Gold Medal - the nation's highest civilian honor - was awarded Wednesday to Jean Springer, 89, of Hyde Park, and about 180 other living veterans of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
03/10/10 Hundreds of woman who served as Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II received the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington Wednesday.
03/10/10 A long-overlooked group of women who flew military aircraft during World War II were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday. Known as Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, they were the first women to fly U.S. military planes.
03/10/10 Two local women, along with 29 other Texas women, will be honored with the Congressional Gold Medal today at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., for their service as Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.
03/10/10 Katherine "Ruth" Kornblum of White Plains was among about 300 women honored in Washington, D.C., today for their pioneering service as Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II - the first women to fly military planes for the country.
03/09/10 By Fred Hiers Staff writer Marguerite Bernhardt, now 90 and living in Ocala, is one of almost 300 women - 26 of them Floridians - who will receive the Congressional Gold Medal for service during WWII as members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, better known as WASPs. (Photo by Bruce Ackerman/ Staff) | 
