Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Historical Markers
Markers honoring the female federal civil service pilots known as WASPs and those women who flew in their World War II predecessor organizations. While performing valued aerial service during the war, they unfortunately were not granted military veteran status until 1977, and much later recognized with a Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.
By Michael Herrick, April 5, 2017
Arizonan Women Airforce Service Pilots – WASP Marker
Commemorative Air Force
Arizona Military Aviation
Walk of Honor
Proudly Recognizes
Arizonan Women Airforce Service Pilots – WASP
1942 — 1944
“We live in the wind and sand … and our eyes are on the stars!”
The . . . — — Map (db m102898) HM WM
monument front:
Jacqueline Cochran
(1906-1980)
Woman Pilot, Record Setter, WASP, Ninety-Nine
First Woman to Break the Sound Barrier
Charter Member of the Coachella Valley Chapter of Ninety-Nines
Jackie Cochran . . . — — Map (db m114556) HM
Dedicated in remembrance of
all who served in the
2nd Ferry Group · Ferrying Division
Air Transport Command.
New Castle Army Air Base, Delaware.
The group delivered aircraft all over the world and
was the first to utilize women pilots, . . . — — Map (db m161751) WM
Dedicated in remembrance of
all who served in the
2nd Ferrying Group, Ferrying Division
Air Transport Command,
New Castle Army Base, Delaware.
1942-1946
The group delivered aircraft all over the world and was the first to utilize . . . — — Map (db m142515) HM WM
Ms. Cochran was an American pilot who held more speed, distance, and altitude records than any other flyer during her career. Ms. Cochran took her first flying lesson in 1932, and got her pilot's license in three weeks. She soon mastered the . . . — — Map (db m192254) HM
An aviation pioneer, she earned her pilots license in 1930 at the age of 16 and her air transport rating in 1933. In 1942 she was instrumental in establishing under Air Transport Command (ATC), the women's auxiliary ferrying squadron, a predecessor . . . — — Map (db m183959) HM
Army Nurse Corps, Est. Jan. 2, 1901
Navy Nurse Corps, Est. May 13, 1908
WAAC/WAC, (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) Army,
Est. May 15, 1942. July 1, 1943 The word auxiliary was
dropped and merged into the WAC (Woman's Army . . . — — Map (db m102384) WM
Side A:
The first airport in central Ohio, Norton Field was named for World War I pilot and star Ohio State University athlete Fred William Norton, a Columbus native. On July 2, 1918, Capt. Norton led the 27th “Eagle”Pursuit Squadron . . . — — Map (db m17414) HM
Dedicated in remembrance of
all who served in the
2nd Ferrying Group, Ferrying Division
Air Transport Command
New Castle Army Air Base, Delaware
1942 - 1946
The group delivered aircraft all over the world and was the first to utilize . . . — — Map (db m92839) HM WM
Women Airforce Service Pilots served their country in World War II.
They were the
first women military pilots
to fly with
the United States Army Air Forces, 1942-1944. — — Map (db m179023) HM WM
Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) trained here in military aircraft during World War II, from Feb. 21, 1943, through final graduation day, Dec. 7, 1944.
Avenger Field first served as a training base for British Royal Air Force Cadets . . . — — Map (db m88709) HM
Jacqueline Cochran, one to the most famous women pilots of the twentieth century, persistently lobbied U.S. Army Airforce General Henry "Hap" Arnold to establish a flight training program for women during World War II. Hard-pressed for pilots . . . — — Map (db m88710) HM
Born into an affluent Tennessee family, Cornelia Fort attended the Ward-Belmont School in Nashville and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 1939. She returned to a society life in Tennessee but was soon introduced to flying by a . . . — — Map (db m77737) HM
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), including Gloucester resident Margaret Ann Hamilton Turner (1917-2009), transported and flight tested aircraft and towed targets for the U.S. military during World War II. More than 25,000 female pilots . . . — — Map (db m63188) HM
Born 1909 in Summers County, she
learned to fly airplanes in 1933.
One of few women instructors in the
pre-WWII Civilian Flight Training
Program, during the war she was in
Women Airforce Service Pilots and a
Pentagon cryptologist. In 1946, . . . — — Map (db m179189) HM
