[2sheds]

Cornelia Fort

WASP, patriot, American hero

[2sheds]

Had I been alive back then, I would have tried my darndest to make WASP trainee Miss Shirley Slade here MRS. 2sheds.....



She flies piston engine fighters and tranports AND is cute as a button? What more could you ask for? ;-)



That's her, second from left.

[ansel12]

For those that aren’t familiar with her she died in a plane crash in Texas.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Gertrude Tompkins Silver, the only American woman who is MIA.

Next month, a major effort will be made to search the ocean off LAX for her P-51D, which is believed to have crashed shortly after takeoff.