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��318th A.A.F.F.T.D.
CLASS
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43-W-4 and 43-W-5
AVENGER FIELD
SWEETWATER, TEXAS
�DEDICATION
To the men and women who have sacrificed
much, to give to us that we may be best fit for the
task before us, we extend our heartfelt gratitude.
The future deeds and flights we perform will reflect
their persistent diligence in this endeavor.
We hope some day to be the Women Pilots
of the Air Transport Command of this nation, having
utilized our skill to better perpetuate our democracy:
performed the small tasks, and overcome trials of
serving duty; knowing the pride in delivering a
plane to its destination, safely and in minimum time,
-that it may sooner fulfull its actual need.
Being mindful of dignity always , we give a
solemn promise to fly with precision, judgment, and
accuracy in this new responsibility . With this
privilige of executing such duty, we shall grow richer
in stature of wisdom with experience. We humbly
set about to occupy our niche with the hope that
we may be worthy of our task and that we may
keep faith with those who have put this tru st before
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THE HISTORY OF AVENGER FIELD
Avenger Field grew from the modest Sweetwater Municipal Airport early in the
spring of 1942, for the purpose of training pilots who would fly airplanes to win the war.
Perched on a hillside, the municipal airport taught people to fly and carried
passengers even before "cubs" were invented.
Mr. Riley remembers landing
here around 1930 when there were only OX-Ss and Curtiss Robins on the field.
The first pilots to be trained at the new field were British airmen and U. S.
volunteers for the RCAF. Thi s was Briti sh Flying Training School No. 7 in the United
States and was under contract to Plosser-Prince who moved here from California to
direct the school. On June i 5th about I00 men started on a course that included
primary, basic and advanced training.
Before rhey arrived, Avenger Field got its name. Mr-s. Grace Faver won a prize
offered to the person in Sweetwater who thought of the best name by calling it
Avenger.
In August, the government decided to close the school as an RCAF school and
make it into an army primary training school. Along with this program was to be run
an Air Transport Command refresher course. Most of the men taking this course were
e.xperienced airline pilots , and they flew BTs. From here they went to twin-erigine
school an.:J then active service overseas. The school's capacity was to be 500 trainees
total.
Meanwhile, in another part of the country, Jacqueline Cochran was making plans
for a training program for women pilots who could fly airplanes to win the war.
The first available field for the school, in Houston, was far from what Miss Cochran had in mind. Although the flying facilities were good, a plant for a complete
program could not be developed here. So, in January, she and officials from the Gulf
Coast Tra ining Center began looking around.
From among the fields available through readjustment of AAF training programs,
Avenger Field was chosen,-because of its multiphaze training possibilities, its maintenance facilities, its compactness and its location in a nice community. The Houston
contractors, Aviation Enterprises, bought out Plosser-Prince , and the girls moved in .
. For_ a_bout a month, the last of the primary cadets were still around finishing up
t~e1r trarn1ng. Although all the girls flew from hangar 2, when the PTs flocked into the
airport. at the ~nd of a period, it was impossible to tell which were piloted by boys
and which by girls.
The boys left, more classes of girls arrived, the remaining Houston classes came
up to graduate here, and slowly the 318th AAFFTD, CFS-W, settled down to the
e:--eryday routine of 6 overlapping classes learning to fly primary, basic and advanced
airplanes.
And unti! the war is won, Avenger Field will continue to train pilots whose duty,
as Mrs. Faver s /wenger Field poem put it, will be ... "wrongs to avenge, that
fr~edom:~ flag n1ight wave, ... and . . . "on mighty wings, these heroes shall not
fad ...
MISS JACQUELINE COCHRAN
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�NOT PICTURED
CAPTAIN JACK P. MILLER
Ass'+. Air Corps Supervisor
1ST LT. ALVIN J. POKORNY
CAPTAIN ROBERT H. HUNT
Ass'+. Air Corps Supervisor
Air Inspector
I ST LT. JERRELL A. SH~HERD
1ST LT. JAMES R. BLACKBURN
Ass't. Air Corps Supervisor
Ass't. Air Corps Supervisor
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MAJOR ROBERT K. URBAN
Commanding Officer
I ST LT. GEORGE M. CREAMER
1ST LT. FIELDING CLAYTON
2ND LT. REX E. ARMSTRONG
Ass 't. Air Corps Supervisor
Ass't. Air Corps Supervisor
Ass 't. Air Corps Supervisor
�I ST LT. LLOYD F. ANDERSON
CAPTAIN KENT N. HUNT
Personnel Officer
Station Surgeon
NOT PICTURED
2ND LT. ALBERT L. H.A.RTING
D.S. AAFFTC
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I ST LT. JAMES A. AHLGRIMM
C ivilian Personnel
I ST LT. BURTON J. SOBOROFF
Ass' t. Surgeon
I ST LT. ALBERT S. WARREN
Ass' t. Surgeon
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Ph ysical Directo r
�MRS. CLIFFORD DEATON
Chief Establishment Officer
MISS JEAN FORSTER
Establishment Officer
MISS RUTH TOWNSEN
Establishment Officer
MISS EILEEN BRISTOL
Establishment Officer
MISS ARDELLE La BRAKE
Sec. to Mrs. Deaton
MISS HAZEL HAYES
Establishment Officer
�EARL McKAUGHAN
President
Aviation Enterprises
HENRY KRIEGEL
Vice-President
Aviation Enterprises
�INSTRUCTOR
By Alberta Head
When bloody war and urge,1t need for haste is gone,
And economic chaos holds us still ,
We shall not soon forget his shape along the street,
Or near the half-deserted hangars on the hill.
His shoulders, forward bent again st the weight of wind and 'chute
The lagging step to match his slow, insistent word,
The wisdom and the patience on his face,
The pride behind the stinging comment that we heard.
We shall remember well the scarf he wore
Of white silk stuff, the jaunty cap which set him quite apart,
His summer 's tan, his winter pinks,
The fleece-lined hood and other heavy trappings of his art.
But do not th ink he will be loathe to go-for look!
Beyond the steady gaze of his blue eyes
His heart is fastened on some lovely, distant dream,
Some fairer view than sandy Texas skies.
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�CIVILIAN FLIGHT PERSONNEL
C. E. HATCHER
ADVANCE GROUP COMMANC ER
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ELMER RILEY
Director of Flying
R. C. STOLZ
ADVANCE GROUPCOMMAl'JLER
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CHARLES M. SPROU LE
BASIC GROUP COMMANDER
S. A. RUMSEY
BASIC GROUP COMM ANDER
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�FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS
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Back Row: R. J. Korges, J. M. Miesch, C. E. Hatcher, R. R. Palmer, H. J. Goodwin,
L. W. George, J. J. Henry, N. E. Schaffer, Wm. Wade.
Front Row: W. R. Plew, R. F. Swanner, W. R. Ramsey, W. R. Deppe, J. C. Kruezmann.
BASIC GROUP COMMANDER
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BASIC GROUP COMMANDER
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Back Row: F. X. Duffy, K. V. Willingham, L. C. Young, M. G. Morscheck,
S. C. Ward, C. B. Green, G. C. Miller
Front Row: H. M. Johnson, R. C. Stolz, J. C. Pace, J. J. Tucker,
C. G. Atwood, G. B. Wanamaker.
�FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS
FLIGHT .INSTRUCTORS
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Back Row: G. M. Geurin, W. F. Moore, R. E. Torkelson, A. L. Ryan,
K. C. Eckley, _J . N. Jones, Z. G. Smith.
Front Row: P. I. LaRue, J. H. Hewitt, P. E. Ward, J. L. Heard
Back Row: 0. L. Birchfield, W. F. Fischler, C. A. Mayer, R. L. Schliep,
B. P. Bohlen, J. K. Craddock, G. R. Gruar, W. B. Hattmann.
Front Row: J: M. Brooks, D. J. Landry, J. F. Hosier, T. E. Givens,
W. J. Giltz, J. F. Van Rue
LINK INSTRUCTORS
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Back Row: W. S. Huston, I. D. Tate, J. R. Nelson, S. A. Rumsey, J. P. Hill,
T. W. Baker, E. E. Ives, H. W. Pinkard
Front Row: M. Lamouseaux, P. H. Bankson, R. F. Harris, D. E. Marsh, D. D. Clifford
Back t~wl: CGpl. C. Proffer, Sgt. R. S. Riley, Pfc. L. H. White, Pfc. C. W. Bowers,
g · . . Creech, T/Sgt. E. Hill; S/Sgt. Wright.
Front Row: Cpl. W. D. Swenson, Sgt. D. N. Gillon, Pfc. M. H. West,
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MacMillan, Sgt. C. Childress, Pfc. C. B. Willard
gt. · W. Lewis, S/Sgt. F. Parrott
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Director
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Ground School
GROUND SCHOOL
Sack Row: M. R. Wormuth, V. A. Fagin, R. P. Shuffield, R. J. Patterson,
G. Gilligan, S. E. Smith, G. S. Cook
Front Row: R. Lehde, C. P. Morrisette, H. 0. Schwartz, B. Howell,
G. Hilliard, P. Tremier,J. L. Morrison, M.A. Krieger.
�CLASS OFFICERS 43-W-4
MARY WIGGINS
Group Commander
&dao,i-i,e-~ ,
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Alice Lovejoy
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/VIRGINIA HARRIS
Mary Amanda Bowles
Ruth T. Underwood
Ruth E. FitzSimons
Group Adjutant
L ~ £dtto,e
Eolyne Yvette Nichols
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Helen Jean Trench Mary E. Trebing
Alice Jean May
Dorothea Johnson
Nancy Nesbit
Virginia Hill
Ann Baumgartner
JEAN LANDIS
Squadron Commander
EUNICE OATES
Flight Lieu t enant
Patricia Hanley
Lucille Friesen
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Flight Lieutenant
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�Cornelia V. Co\by
Oorothy R. Colburn
Bertha M. Clifford
r. \3Llchner
2453 l'-1. Central ParK Avenue
Chicago, 111·1no·1s
Fai1h
Ann C. Brennan
2922 Cleveland Heights B\vd.
laKeland, F\or·1da
I 7 I9 King Street
Jacksonville, Florida
I 354 S. W. I 8th Street
Miam·1, Flor·1da
417 West '(ande\\ B\vd.
Mary A. Bow\es
E:\ Paso, 1 exas
Burl·1ngame, Cal•1forn·1a
June L. E\\ington
Centerv·1\\e, Kansas
Gwendo\yne E.. Cowart
Vera K. Cook
Arrowhead Springs Hotel
San Bernardino, Cal•1fornia
Grace Clark
Virginia C\air
PaHi Mel. Canada
Portland, Oregon
32 I 5 Ped.ham Street
Yv"1ch·1ta Falls, 1 ex.as
2500 9th Street
\fl{1chita Falls, 1 exas
730 Bonaventure Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia
�Marce\\a J. Fatio
San Jose, California
Ooro-\hea M. Johnson
Anne M. Howe\\
Route I
F-od Oodge, Iowa
1hornson, Georg·1a
Owight B. Hi\dinger
\(·,owa, Kansas
Rosa Lea Fu\\wood
\0'2 S. \st Street
McAllen, 1 e)(as
Mary J. Far\ey
I 30 S. R. Fe
Aransas Pass, 1 e)(as
\(athb~n N. \(el\)'
bOb I:. 1 urner
Annabe\\e R. \(ekic
Cleveland, O hio
\lirgie L. Jowe\\
Fr ankston, 1 e)(as
Sett)' L. Heinrich
SI 61/2 1 eetsnorn
Margie E. Heckle
Virginia P. Harris
9'25 Gilmore Avenue
N ashv·,\le, 1 ennessee
forest H "1\\
Mernpnis, 1 ennessee
Houston, 1 e)(as
1 ucurncari, New Me)(·, co
�Ruby E. Mu\\ins
Alice J. May
\ 9S Jonn Street
Ooris M. Manuel
Lydia O. Lindner
2009 t: . \ 4tl-l Street
Brooklyn , New
\-\a-ie\ '(. Lee
Martna Ya. Lawson
68- I 2 Dartmouth St .
forest H"1\ls, L. I., New
754 Spri ng Street
Macon , Georg·,a
Englewood, New Jer sej
]640 De Re·,rner Avenue
Bronx, New '< or , New Yor~
'< ork
'< ork
I 3 IO 'ik1dge Road
Charleston , \/vest Virg·1n·1a
Martna M. Lundy
Kat\,erine S. Lof,
]?.OS S. \Iv. 27th Avenue
Constance £. Uewel\yn
280 I Hadzell Stree~
Evanston, lllino·1s
M"1ami, f\or·1da
so?. So . 9th Street
las Vegas, Nevada
Nancy E. Nesbit
I 049 East Uncoln Avenue
Pomona, Cal"rfornia
Eo\yne Y. Nicno\s
Box 356
Chi cago. \\\inois
Eunice S. Oates
Mt . Mor·1ah Road
Germa ntow n. 1 e nnes,02
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Martha J. Potter
Gene S\ack
M. E.the\ Sharon
Madge A. S. Rutherford
Sarah E\i1.abeth Pearce
I 709 I 9th Avenue S
Nas\wille, i ennessee
229 Atlanf1c Avenue
Long Beach, California
Cross Drive, Woodruff Place
\ndianapo\"1s, \ndiana
403 east Jefferson Street
Quincy, f\orida
Wi\\ie J. Peacock
703 Rosewood Avenue
Qu·,ncy, Florida
Mary Ann 1hie\ges
Betty L 1 ay\or
Auburn , Californ·1a
Mary J. Stephens
Mary M, Rosso
frances N. Rohrer
I 370 N. Mornings·,de Dr·,ve
Margaret H. Reeves
ihornaston, Georg·1a
Atlanta, Georgia
SI 3 Stuart Avenue
Kalarnazoo, Michi-gan
7728 Wildernere
Detroit, Michigan
I 8 Wil\"1arn Street
Dansville, New York
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Jane-I' J. -Zuchowski
\ne-i S. Woodward
Joanne M. i rebtoske
\lio\e'\ C. 1hurn
Nancy Lee Ba'i<er
90 Bryant Avenue
White P\ains, New YorK
\ 79 First Street
Newburqh, New York
5856 Page Avenue
St. Lou·,s, Missour"i
\ I 5 I 6th Avenue No .
St . Cloud, Minne;ota
Bowdle, Soutn Dakota
Vio\a 1hornpson
I I 2]-3 Avenue N
f- argo, N ortn Dakota
Juanita
Martha C. Bevins
Lauretta Beaty
\ 844 Rose Street
W. Bo\ish
3 I 6 North Avenue SI
Los Angeles , California
SO C\over Avenue
Er\anger, Kentucky
Bur'oank, California
Mary C. Wi\son
Borbara Wi\\is
Kena u ·_t..rcy
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W i\\ces
1,28 1 E:a<J bth Street
Ro~,wel\, New Mex·1co
q \ b S. limestone Street
Spr·, ngf,eld. Onio
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Bound Brook. New Jerse'{
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Lyda M. Dunham
Ber, \-t Dodd
\/irginia sweet Ois'oroW
\95 Upland Road
Qu·1ncy, Massac\.useHs
170q N. W. Park Place
Okla\.orna City, Okla\.orna
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Genevieve £. Brown
Parkwood Boulevard
Scnenectady, NeW York
Hermosa Bea cl., Cal"1fornia
Marian J. Bradley
M. Louise Sowden
I 10 Woods·ide Avenue
West Lav.in, Reading, Pennsy\vani~
E\rner, New Jersey
Ruth \. Gamber
Mary E.. \:ng\e
1 \ 0 Catalpa Ro ad
Nata\ie L. E\\is
AHa Corbett
0 I 600 S. W. G reenv.;ood Ro ad
He\en B. Calhoun
Margaret \. Bruns
2054 S. 62nd Street
Milwaukee, w·,sconsin
3933 Sunnys·1de Avenue
Seattle, Wa sl.ington
Portland, Oregon
830 B Avenue, N. E.
Cedar Rap"1ds, \owa
le1-ington, Kentucky
658 ~ast 2.9tn Street
Davenport, \owa
�Oorothy t. \(ocher
Portland Oregon
Rosalie Louis Grohman
I 36 North Jefferson Avenue
Saginaw, Mich·1gan
Patricia L. Hanley
2806 t:. locust
M"1\waukee, Wisconsin
Mary claine Hines
Pilot Kno'o Road
Mendota, Minnesota
Jean Landis
Route I , Bo)(. 204
El Cayon, Cal"1torn·1a
Virginia Hi\\
6809 35 Avenue N. \Iv
Seattle, \Iv ashington
Maryalice l'Hornrnedieu
Monroe , Wisconsin
Catherine M. Houser
2840 Claudette Street
0 allas , I e)(.as
Kittie L. Learning
7204 \Iv ayne Avenue
Upper 0ar'oy, Pennsylvan·,a
Jennie X. Hrestu
3006 N. E. Bryce
Portland. 12, Oregon
Virginia O. Luttre\\
57 I I Carlton Way
Hollywood Cal•,forr.10
Nancye R. Lowe
333 I Avenue J.
fort Worth. Te)(as
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E.sther N·\_oom'.s
7924 S. \\\ino1s
Cnicago,
'tche\\
M, Stree\
Eli1.abethtnH.Oats
308 Ncr Ala'oa rn a
Dotha n
Moore~venue
Margery nnam
3 I I Ave Virginia
Roa noke,
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Henrie tta NI.
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Massac\-)use
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E.i\een MBelleview
2027 ~- Ar·,zona
Phoen1i<,
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A\ice J. 1a\cott
Janice R. "Jan" 1 ate
'3 I 8 South Ravinia Dr·,ve
Oal\as, 1 exas
\sabe\ M. Steiner
I 78 Dana Avenue ·
Ju\ia S. Sapp
b \ 0 A. Avenue
Frances R. Sanderson
Palo Alto, Cal•,fornia
Lawton, O\<.\anorna
Spokane, Washington
Jeanne SenneH Robertson
4629 Arn'orose Avenue
Los Angeles, California
He\en J. Trench
Mary £. 1rebing
Louisv·,\le, Colorado
£\eanor £.. 1horopson
\ SOO Sal',s'oury Avenue
He\en Wyatt Snapp
Dorothea G. Shu\tz
Davenport , Iowa
\-\e\en M. Schaefor
I I Forest Avenue
Cinc'lnnati, Ohio
2236 O'oservatory ?\ace, N. W.
Wash·,ngton, D. C.
Spencer Nortn Carolina
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I 8 Ellicott Place
New Brighton, Staten Island,
New York
�CLASS OFFICERS 43-W-5
RUTH LINDLEY
Group Adjutant
MARJORIE SANFORD
Group Commander
Barbara
Waite
Underwood
Ruth Thornason
\0\0 Avenue I
Brownwoo d '
Jane
Sorngar dner
h" d Avenue
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Ward
d Avenue
407 G\enwoo y k
New or
Syracuse,
MARIANNE BEARD
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Scotts UTI'
Squadron Commander
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E. HELEN DETTWEILER
Flight Lieutenant
MARY PARKER
Flight Lieutenant
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Y,o\e\ ·
'\" Avenue
I 409 So. f~ a m- ,n
flint, Mi cn1g an
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A\rison C. Burns
Rui'hrnary "Bucky" Suck\ey
F. Virginia Acher
1 erre Haute, Indiana
Ru~h E. Anderson
S57 Cen+rnl Bldg.
Seattle, Wasri,ngton
Marianne \rene Beard
\ 7 I 4 t.. Geneva Place
Milwaukee, Wiscons·,n
2 I 7 W . Brookdale
F-ullerton, Cal"1forn·1a
west H·,g\.land Avenue
Redlards, California
729 Academy Street
\(alarnazoo, M"icl,·,gan
Janice C. Christensen
Ruth "Nic~ie" A. Carter
Cleveland, o\.·,o
Mar·,on V. Car\strorn
C owdrey, Colorado
Ooris V. Bristo\
q \ b South Hester
liydora J. Sochanek
O. Gayle Bevis
2924 Wabash
\(ansas City , t,.,i\',ssouri
326 Mars'nall Street
\:frz.abeth, New Jersey
Maryv·,\le, Missouri
729 Pac·,f,c Avenue
Waukegan, \\\"1no·,s
�He\en M. Oow\ing
Des Mo·1nes, Iowa
E. He\en Oettwei\er
Solange M. O'Hooghe
50q S. 1hird Street
Rockford, \\\"1no·1s
5517 Grove Street
LeoHa Cook
Willow & Sanders Roads
\rma C. C\eve\and
bO \:.ast Bellevue Place
Margaret L Cox
\ 408 North 2otn Street
Birmingham , Alabama
Cnevy Chase, Maryland
l'-loi-r\.brook, 111·,nois
Cnicago, ll\"1110·1s
E\eanor M. Oyer
Cnicago, Illi nois
S'y'\via A. Dahmes
Redwood \=-alls, \v\"1nnesota
£:\\en Y. Croxton
317 N . Cnurcn Street
CnorloHe, North Carol·,na
Ooro-\hy E. Ebersbach
2q06 Hawtnorne Road
i arnpa, f lor·,da
E\\en M. Endacott
SI 2 W. Arel.er
i ulsa, Oklanoma
Jeanne P. d' Amb\y
I 835 Delancey Street
Pni\adelphia , Pennsylvania
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Med·,na, Washington
frances G. Green
\801 M
Galveston, 1 etas
\rene E. Gregory
I 803 Shallcross Avenue
Wilmington, 0elaware
Monica L F\aherty
Brattle'ooro , Ye rrnont
E. Li\\ian Epsberg
Staten Island, N. Y., New York
Ruth E. Fitt.Sirnons
2 I 4 8th Avenue
La Grange, Illinois
E\i1.abeth M. Haas
0romore Road
Scarsdale, New Yark
Eugenie B. Garvin
Payne, Oh.10
He\en \rene Frernd
Bot 447
Canal Po·,nt, \=-lor·,da
Luci\\e F. Friesen
338 N. Yale
Wich·1ta, Kansas
Ruth F. Hagemann
I 228 Lausanne
0allas, 1 exas
He\en F. Hague
SI g Orange Avenue
Yuma, Ar·120na
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£.\\enor Se\\ \(urten
Ann Marie \(ar\son
429 Calhoun Street
Anderson, South Carol'1na
S]2 E:. Huntington Orive
Monrovia, Cal'1forn·,a
2649 \/V. 97th Street
E.vergreen Park, lllino·,s
Barbara J. Hicks
Mary Hartson
Geraldine N. Hardman
209 North \/'l1tte
Poteau, Oklahoma
] 2 IS S. I:. Salmon Street
Portland, Oreqon
7S2 \/Vest Street
Reno, Nevada
Caryl W. Jones
406 Yellowstone Avenue
Mar\orie J. Logan
Ruth £.. Lindley
IS I 5 W. Lew·,s
San Oiego , California
Ce\ia M. Hunter
Mary M. Hi\\er
Jerry Preston Hi\\
I 006 North Mariposa
Los Anqeles, Ca\',fornia
b \ 0 N. Je~erson Street
Kahoka, tvfosour·,
Route I, Box 875
Everett, \/V ashington
Airporl
B",11·,ngs, Montana
~r,1\", ngs, Montana
�Leila R. Mather
c er
Dcllas, Tc:1--0
S714
Pauline f>. Markle
I 04 N. 2.Sth S ree~
Harriet N. MacLane
402. r.ast \/Y ashington
Alice E. LoveioY
Winifred Jean Livingston
Macomb , Illinois
I IS Brite Avenue
Scarsdale, New Yori<
102.s Woodlawn
Betty G. Clements
Iowa City, Iowa
Elmwood, Ne'orasl<.a
Ethel I. Meyer
la e C,ty, Minnesota
F\oel\a McIntyre
Ji\\ McCormick
Anne A. McClellan
Route I , Box 3 b2
Sonoma, Cal•,fornia
SSb No. Maple Streo
Greens'ourg, Penr sylvania
I I 88 forest
Memphis, Tennessee
Camp H·,11, Penrsy\van· a
�Yvonne "Paf' C. Pateman
557 Woodbr',dge Avenue
Port ~ead',ng, New Jerse)'
Jean M. Mohrman
J3b Harvard Avenue
Rockville Centre, New\ of~
Wiima B. \\.~orehead
1 \51 North ·· o ' Stre('~
San Bernardino , Cali~ c•i" r."1 ,
Roberta E. Mundt
Berea, Nebraska
Josephine A. Pih.
822 Hawthorne 1 erruc0
Manitowoc , Wisconsin
Jo Myers
500 South Storey
Dallas, 1 exas
Char\otte F. Ni\es
235 E I Ith Street
New York, New York
Rose R. Penn
3602 Gregory Street
Mad·,son, \f/'1sconsin
Ruth L. Penrod
I 220 B North Dearbon
Ch·,cago , Illinois
Mary E. Parker
Wasnington Park
Oxforci, New York
Mur\orie i. Pope\\
2264 S. W. 6th Street
M'1arni, f-\orida
He\en B. Porter
2 I 9 Broad Street
\'-Aontoursvil\e, Pennsylvan·,a
�Jane S. Scott
Sy\via Schwart?.
Dorothy L. Scheid\er
420 So. Allen Avenue
Pasadena, California
3200 Buena \{1sta Avenue
Detroit, Mic\.'1gan
Greens'ourg, Indiana
Ruth Roberts
Margare-1· Jane Ray
Nadine S. Ramsey
707 Baker Avenue
Mankato, Minnesota
Route I
Hoagland, Indiana
3 I q Hotel Lassen
w·1cn·1ta, Kansas
SeHY Shea
A'r..ron, New York
He\en J. Severson
Margare-1· J. Seip
7 I 2:. W. Weils Street
M·11waukee, w·,scons·,n
Mariorie R. Sanford
Meredith E:. Ro\fe
4346 Pine Street
Dawn Y. Rochow
Long Meadow
Pittsford, New York
Longview, Wasn·1ngton
502 Bigelow Street
Peor·1a, 11\inois
905 Medary Avenue
Brookings, Soutn Dakota
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Cairo, Nebraska
Wi\he\rnina M. Teer\ing
Alpine, 1 e)(.as
Martha Jane Thornas
Route 4, Box I 14A
Dallas, 1 exas
Kathryn £. Stark
cn·,cago, l\\inois
A.one M. Shie\ds
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania
Marion Foster Stegernan
Atlanta, Georgia
Shirley S\ade
I 420 Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, \\\",no·,s
Lorraine M. Ster
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4 IO Clay Street
~edar f-a\\s, Iowa
Harriet Louise Urban
77 Lexington Avenue
Buffalo, New York
Virginia C. Wilson
2 I02 Dexter Avenue
Ann Ar'oor, M·,cnigan
LaceHa L. Wylie
4 IO So. Front Street
Wnee\ing, West Virginia
�REMEMBER THE DAY
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When we first gazed open-mouthed at the sleek disdainful Fairchilds arrayed 1n
shining splendor on the line;
And how proud we were of the Army insignia , white star on blue circle; for ·the
first fime painted on planes "we" would fly;
And how unbelievable it all was. Army plares!
And cadet equipment,
the
real McCoy--same
helmets and goggles, same zootsuits (in the same
cadet sizes,) same A-2 jackets and grotesque winter
flying togs! (Yes, it was COLD in Texas once, remember?)
And remember the eagerly awaited and much
discussed solo flight, with silver wings stretched out
on either side, and the heart inside turring over
2000 rpm!
Remember the first army check and the accompanying chills, fever, and slight hysteria-when
neither mental nor muscular co-ordination was possible.
And the usual period of black despair and
desperate hope that followed.
And wasn't it funny how our Fairchilds shrank just the teeniest bit (not meaning
any disrespect) when we saw the BT's come rolling down the runway to their new home.
We who survived Primary know that it was the hardest pull of all.
Not only-the
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schedule., and each schedule to be followed to the letter-a far cry from the carefree
existence most of us had led before.
Yes, Primary was the beginning.
Yes, that's it . . . you told yourself: to be a good pilot
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" China Girl
A zoo+ suit with a drape shape 1
It used to rain in Sweetwater
"Time! Corporals, check
your attendance"
Strange Companion
Green Flag for coveralls, and red for dress, but when both appeared
it caused some distress
Most dress designers drape the garment, thereby creating a more pleasing effect .. •
but, alas ours were not even tailored. They were drooped ins+e·a d of draped.
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Hey, that PT belongs to maintenance!
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Just a sitt,n' , and a waitin', and a
watchin'-and a hopin'.
Another check pilot
More of the same
A chandelle variatton
Check Pilot
"My favorite instructor"
Waiting can be fun
Guess which way the wind is from-that's right.
ways out of the south
It's al-
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Airplanes rrwst fly _ _, acc,dcnts will hoppenl
but those cous~d by foolish, cord~ss, d,,.
obedient, cocky- or grandstand pilots con
and must be stopp('d
"COMES A PAUSE IN THE DAY'S OCCUPATION"AND A BIT OF HANGAR FLYING IS NOT AMISS.
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�A CHUTE, A CUSHION OR TWO, THEN A BT TO FLY
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• • •
Oh, a long time ago, when each of us, with parachute in tow, first lumbered into
that big B T? Such a. lot of new gadgets confronted us: prop control, rudder trim, oil
!:>hutter, radio, to say nothing of a "new" altimeter setting system, and flaps for take.off.
Remember the first time you saw the " BT Cockpit Procedure; " the struggle of
'how' to change prop pitch, et cetera? That 45° entry was never long enough to acc-ommodate all its duties, and the day the tower was installed you had to stretch it
another five miles in order to have time for the radio procedure.
Ah, _yes, procedure
... there was a day when one Trainee called in,
" FF 81 from nine one on the ... on the ... oh, on
that leg." And the safety pilot on a buddy ridewho thought she was on interphone-after landing
said, " how 's that for dropping it in? "
Instrument rides! We'd often hear, "keep the
ball centered. A one-needle-width turn.
I said ...
keep that one needle-width. " And those stalls and
spins under the hood. What a feeling! After an hour
on in struments you'd come down talking to yourself
and answering your own questions.
Remember those cross-country trips-especially those when the weather closed
;n and stranded our BT's at Brady, Cisco, Stamford, Brownwood and even out on the
lone prairie of San Angelo?
We became well ecquainted with Texas and Texan~,
didn't we?
Then, there was the little item of night flying. It was quite a thrill, especially ihe
cross-country, even if we couldn't keep count of the beacons.
Night flying really
topped off our Basic training ... and some of us will remember it for one of the rat
races about four a.m. one morning.
All in all, BT's held a lot of 'firsts' for us ... our first radio, our first instrument
flying, our first night flying ... and we 're all very grateful to the in structors who
druggled through those seventy eventful hours with us.
�FF Eight One
"Five nine landing at 15:30"
Lynne
It takes practice but you can't
log this time
She soloed!
Every Friday Night
�"Lazy Mary, will you get up?"
Bay Orderly
''I'm an old cowhand "-ln one easy (?) lesson
Not a paid adv .
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Vanity, vanity ...
Our Mom ...
"This goes on, it seems forever "
. .. And her chow Ii ne
(Maybe I can absorb A & E just by proximiJ-y)
Jack-knife
Anne 's Ba shful
�Refueling ! ! !
With camera and bared sole
Ready to hitch a buddy ride in a BT
Now for a cross-country to Harpersville
They all do it
��REMEMBER THE DAY
♦
•
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when we first tucked the wheels of the SIX up under our tummies ....
That same day we grew-figuratively-six feet taller and we began talking about
graduation as something that could happen to us.
And when that day was over, we couldn't wait til the next, arid the next, and the
next-when we could fly that big AT again. Secretly, we each felt that the SIX was
made with us alone in mind.
Of course we had that beam to bracket-hard enough in the SIX but all but
impossible in the SEVENTEEN-and that cone of silence to find somewhere in the mass
of radio waves over Abilene and Big Spring. And then there was that Link, that 1,~d
a mind of its own even though it was bolted down to the floor.
We began to relax and think about going home again, while we cross-contried
with a- co-pilot in that luxurious SEVENTEEN. And
as we plotted those trips, we had in the back of our
minds thjngs like-shall I get train or plane or bus
or pack-mule transportation home, what about all
my baggage, shall I send a graduation announcement to Aunt Hattie, maybe we'll have check rides
in both ships after all ...
We talked and talked and talked about bases.
We wanted to be able to choose ourselves which
one we'd be sent to, and yet they all sounded good.
And where did Jane and Mary and Betty want to
go? We'd gotten to know them pretty well after
six months.
And we began to see ourselves in action-girls who'd graduated before us
stopped in at Avenger on their way to California, Arizona and Flo~ida, flying everything from 65HP on up.
But we were a little sad too, rugged and tough as we'd become ·in our army life.
This training was something we'd wished for ·ever since we. first decided we'd be a pilot.
And we'd been through lots of silent battles during that training.
friends we wouldn't forget.
Artd we'd made
Somehow, those last days,. we began to walk aruond
and take a last look at all the old things.
And now we have our wings ... What they mean, is that we remembered what
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CREW RO,= THREE
our hard-working instructors pounded into our heads, that we lost the attitude that
we were the only girl flyer at the airport, and that we were prepared to take on any
flying mission that was asked of us ... we are ready to help win the war.
�6
High Flight
Sweet Sue
Now let's begin with the stick in neutral position
Allah Allah
Little Words of Wisdom
Virgie Jo
Among my souvenirs
C ock pit procedure on an AT-6 and an AT-I 7.
Let' s hear you qo throuqh it, now.
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At high noon just try and keep th~ sun out of your eyes
Use in an EMERGENCY.
Fire extinguisher ...
and three helpers!
Well, its a long trek to the AT line ...
better wait for the driver
Recipe: Take one AT, a half dozen pilots
and bake in the sun until cross-country is done.
And so they were married .
Houston
Let's Go!
Night flying on instruments, by Day.
Waiting for the weather
�LAST BACKWARD GLANCE
The wishing well
Beyond far horizons
Let's see, do I have an
army ride today!
Eddie Duchin's Rival
Cover Girl
Seventeen
One more coke
They hang on his every word
Just follow the beam
�Now we have found our ways again
Up into blue imperial fields
To charge across saphiric plains
Through cloud swept vastnesses,
To race the sun across
This great free continent.
Once more we soar on wings of America
Into wind haunted silences
Through moonlight vaulted trancepts
And prismic pillared aisles of air.
Ours to fly into the bright wilderness
Of the lands on the edqe of the universe
From where the sun sends her red gold
At us and we feel it touch our faces.
Search for the door to our souls
Through our enchanted eyes.
And the wind ... we belong to him
If hearts can be bound and caught
With aery chains and held
By the song of the mystic traveler.
We are creatures of Heaven
When we invade even its outposts
On our flights., and we and our wings,
Though its slaves, can laugh
To find so sweet a bondage in Life.
If Death should become one with us
In that land of space and the wind,
Our rough wild wind
Would wind round some of us
And his touch would engulf
And possess us and hurl us
Like iuggernauts, down from the upper air.
Let love of flight and our laughter,
Like avenging thunder unfurled
Come tumbling down the heights we claim,
A challenge to those who come after
To cast their craft yet with us
Across the free skies that protect our land
In War and Peace, for cc-untry and with God.
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Color Guard
On Graduation Day
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638.6
.A9
.T86
1944
��TO JACQUELINE COCHRAN
for her sincere and unswerving efforts toward
furthering the WASP program: for her many
and valiant battles to give us finer training,
better jobs, a chance to fly "the big ones;"
for setting our goal high as the clouds we fly
among.
TO MRS. DEATON
for being gay, charming, friendfy, firm: for
being our No. I trouble shooter: for making
our life at Avenger one of happy memories,
rich experiences, months well spent.
TO OUR INSTRUCTORS
for adding another line of worry, another grey
hair, that we might pass a check ride or a
50-3; for cheering us up or racking us backtrying to make us HP's: for being our palour friend--our "official worrier"
TO THE FIELD PERSONNEL
for the innumerable ways they have helped
soften the _bumps-the E.O.'s, for making our
worries their worries: the grim-faced, kindhearted check pilots: our congenial Weather
Department; the Link instructors who helped
us through many a trying moment; the "always willing to help" lads in the mail room:
our friends in need, the hospital staff: those
who kept us trim and fit, the P.T. Department;
tne Quartermaster Department; Operations:
the kitchen staff: the maintenance crews-
TO ALL OF YOU
W-9 says:
Thanks! It's been fun and a wonderful seven
months. We'll never forget them nor you.
�2563 AAF Base Unit
44-W-9
Avenger Field
Sweetwater, Texas
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Sunward I've dimbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split douds-and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along and _flu_ng
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue
~he~~p~:~/tf] wi• •we~::g~~~:w,th ~asy grace
IN
MEMORIUM
GLEANNA ROBERTS
MARSERY DAVIS
Anci, while with sHent. lifting mind_ I've frod
The high untresp7sed sfctit~ol. space.,
Put out my hand;
3 e face of God.
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�Lt. Col. Roy P. Ward
Commanding Officer
Mrs. Cliff Deaton.
Chief Establishment Officer
Major E. W. H1:1bbard
Army Director of Flying .
�Graduates
44-W-9
�SARAH (SADIE) ALLSHOUSE
Wilmerdirrg, Pennsylvania
"I got gum in my pants"
EVELYN {PINKY) BRIER
Tri-City Airport
San Bernardino, California
"My dacidy still loves me"
MARY (BALDY) BALDNER
207 Park Drive
Xenia, Ohio
"Oh boy, is this sexy!''
NORMA -A. BOSTON
Carthage, Illinois
"I think that's awful"
MARY (JO) BARDSLEY
Kewanna, Indiana
"But, I want to fly."
ANITA BRONKEN
Colfax, Wisconsin
"Oh crumb!"
ANNA C. BARON
Waterville, New York
"It isn't healthy."
ELIZABETH (BETTY) BRISCOE
Box 414
Frederick, Oklahoma
"It's very discabooberating!"
�MARY VIRGINIA EATHERTON
NADINE V. CANFIELD
Chapman, Kansas
"Glad to see you"
1306 S. Elwood Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma
"Dear George, guess what?"
MARJORIE CHRISTIANSEN
312 S. 3rd West Street
Provo, Utah
"Take me for instance-"
JEAN (JEEP) DOWNEY
591 Buena Vista Avenue
San Francisco, California
"Men bore me" (?)
D. DEANE (FERGIE) FERGUSON
ELIZABETH (DUSTY) DAVIS
Curles Neck Farm
Richmond, Virginia
"Hup two three fo' "
34 Nineteenth Street
Toledo, Ohio
"That I must see"
LILLIAN (DIXIE) DIXON
834 North Ponca Street
Norman, Oklahoma
"I'm all squirrelled up!"
DOROTHY (DOT) ESTEP
Snelling, Ca)ifornia
"Gef eager"
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�JANE FOHL
ELAINE HARMON
I 041
635 E. 34th Street
Baltimore, Maryland
"She ripped and she snorted-"
Broad Avenue
Wilmington, California
"I do not snore"
MARGARET (MAGGIE) GEE
RUTH W. GROVES
2773 Acton Street
Berkeley, California
"Basically she's a good kid"
R~vena, New York .
"Nobody loves me"
MILDRED L. HOUSE
LILLIAN (JAY) GLEZEN
937 S. Hobart
Los Angeles, California
"Hey, wait for me"
Gilmer, Texas
''I'm a fixin' to-''
ANN G. GRIFFIN
BARBARA HERSHEY
Tiny Brook Road
Weatogue, Connecticut
"Wiggle ze hips"
306 S. 14th Street
Frecierick, Oklahoma
"I'm so cute"
�JULIA (JULE) LAMM
183 Tilghman
Allentown, Pennsylvania
"But I like to sleep"
MARILYN {JACKIE) HUGHES
65 Acacia Avenue
Reedley, California
"Hello girl"
MARIE (COOKIE) JACOBSON
2730 Carmel Street
Oakland, California
"Everything happens to me!"
KATHRYN {KAY) KLEINECKE
I 819 Homan Avenue
Fort Worth, Texas
"Frankie"
BETTY FERROL MARTIN
Box 355
Wetumka, Oklah;ma
"Well, Whataya know''
HELEN L. (CASEY) JOHNSON
Madison, Wisconsin
(Censored) .$*?!&
ALICE (LUCKY) KIERSTEAD
Hotel Gramercy Park
52 Gramercy Park North
New York City, New York
''That's for sure"
PHYLLIS A. LEE
2154 Russell Street
Berkeley, California
"Let's go eat"
�JOAN OLMSTEAD
143 Bay Shore Avenue
Long Beach, California
''Glad to hear it"
PHYLLIS McCARTY
1026 Holt Avenue
Los Angeles, California
"Gawd awful"
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ELEANOR (MICKEY) McLERNON
209 Hubbard Avenue
San Antonio, Texas
"I've told you about 20 million
times"
VIOLET (VIE) NISLEY
5414 Victoria Avenue
Los Angeles, California
"We - - - I - I"
CATHERINE PARKER
81 o S. College Avenue
Bryan, Texas
k"
"Whoever took it, give it bac
WILMA MILLER
4637 East Eighth
Kansas City, Missouri
"Strictly from Misery"
GLORIA NELSON
Tokeland, Washington
"I thought I'd die"
MARJORIE OSBORNE
1524 Flett Avenue
Racine, Wisconsin
"I'm going up for a recheck now"
�PENELOPE (PENNY) PEIRCE
MARY REGALBUTO
26 East Wharton Road
Glenside, Pennsylvania
"Hello hungry, I'm Penny"
2105 Random Road
Cleveland, Ohio
"O Solo Mio!"
MARGARET PHILLIPS
327 W. Highland
Tracy, California
''I'll beat cha with a big fat stick"
VIRGINIA (GINNY) POTTHOFF
Bonny Doone Route, Box 4
Santa Cruz, California
"You tell 'em slaughter house"
~OSALIE (R. T.) PHILLIPS
SALLY REWEY
9200 Darnen Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
"I'm going burr-serk!"
933 S. Westmoreland
Los Angeles, California
'' It may not be a castle, but
it's our home"
DOROTHY PICTURE
60 I Avenue C, S. E.
Childress, Texas
"Now, wait a minute-"
BARBARA JEAN REIMER
4414 W. North Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Let's scrub the floor"
�MARTHA (MARTY) SARAGER
FRANCES STROUD
Route 3, Box 672
Covington, Kentucky
"Is there something you feel you
should tell me?"
702 E. Coronado Road
Phoenix, Arizona
"It's out of this world"
MARY A. (PETER) SHOWERS
Shelbyville. Indiana
"It's Ghastly"
ESTHER STAHR ·
Eastland, Texas
"Tough, isn't it?''
(Not Pictur.ed)
GAYLE SNELL
1772 Rose Villa
Pasadena, California
"All right, who swiped it?"
MARY F. WOODWARD
336 S. Yorktown Avenue
Tulsa, Oklahoma
"I want my mommy"
BETTY STAGG
443 Crestview Road
Columbus, Ohio
'.'How's come?"
JANET WAYNE
6723 Constance Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
"What's your trouble?"
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(Not Pictured)
PAMELA CARR
Box 128
Balboa Island, California
AGNES A.- ATKEISON
Munday, Texas
ETHEL LYTCH
913 W. Church Street
Laurinburg, North Carolina
PATRICIA HOURAN
Ashburnham, Massachusetts
CATHERINE McGRATH
1500 Morada Place
Altadena, California
FRANCES GIMBLE
Tyler, Texas
JANIS GREGG
Britton, Michigan
ELIZABETH PHILLIPS
5953 Evanston Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana
GAIL SIGFORD
Route I, Box 782
Puyallup, Washington
�Primary
�Ta king life easy
Is that 2900' inciicated?
Hall admirerers
And I volunteered or
(Yes sir, no sir, don't scream sir)
Two on every field
What was that take off time
They're such big planes
W-9 is squadron E
Crankin' with Geer
Stage Door Canteen
�Dispatcher
,
Dispatched
Baseleg Briscoe
and Downwind Davis
Don't touch that board
Just call me
Ground Loop
Shanor and students
D stands for Davis
South by South West
Check rides don't make
me nervous
Kerly
Low man on a totem pole
Watch that torque
�PRJmA~Y
Evt~h!nq new and Urrif~inq
And wool a bk) oirp\ane Wtl were f\~in9
Rolled up zoot suits eand other pmnks
,Lt. nanoz and the Skzlrman cranks. ·
Regulation, aren't we
7
Au~I iarkls, a1ttkwaqoos -t1x ~e houses
Food in t'1<i OOljS, and thi \itl\e qre~ mousqs
Ham~mire? Hoolierwerf, and Bill ''Torquf' murrn4
San~ storms, fine .squalls and dust in a flurry.
7
Solo and friend
S. M. I.
Naughty Naughty
Mustn't show
Practically flattering
�Urban's Turbans
Time out for sun
It says here
The price they payed
--·vv
~,.
Just barely
We're not ciressing
I passed
It was worth it
Sitt in' on the front stoop
Zoot Suit
and Parachute
Lucky
�Transition
�"Gear down and
locked" Eatherton
"A loaf of Bread and
jug of Wine" Rewey
Must be Saturday!
Casey!
U2
Eager Beavers!
Could this be
Social Contact ? ? ?
They're smart too!
"6 Pillow•~ House_·
"It ain't my airplane, and I'm not your Mamma,
so why not solo you!"
The Million Dollar
Glamour Gal ! !
"W-9 Reporting, Sir
!"
Guess Who!
�T~J\NSIT\ON
Transition phase was ·p~fuJ hectic
We flw th( AT ond ro one wrecked it
The qeor and flaps ~nt up <lnd down
And on Saturda~s we ~nt to town.
"Randolph Shuffle"
Adiabatic Charts!
We were hot and both(ru\ and
-funned bad h,hit.s
Which Wtre usua\l ~ squelch«I b~ Captain Ziivitz
final\lj one day we flni5h~
·
But alas7 the dass had diminished.
D. N. I. F.?
10 Minutes -
Code; *!$?&
-
-
She Passed!
"All beds must be in by 06: 15!"
�Instruments
�InSTR.UffiEnT'5
Stzmdard rate turns and coont1n()tion
Fi~it19 th<l b<iom to 'the A~!lene station
Dits and dahs and a tw1I 19ht zone
Off
course, on cours~,somtlimes a c.one. ·
"But it's impossible to get lost"
Nice day -
~d merchant , Jimm~ Hwrd, and Green ·
· And instrudors wert: kind,.inskad of nxan
Wt did q<lt throu9 h, on~ iind oil .
Thm SU mmir was ovflr and it was fa 11.
outside
Have you "heard" the "Story"
An instrument Aid
· Instruments don't bother me,
bother me-
�0600:
Revielle
Five Minutes! Fall out! Flight 'Tenshun! Forw'd March!
0615:
Mess
Bolt cold eggs-No time to let your coffee cool-let it burn.
Gotta make my bed. Gotta sweep the floor. You have three
minutes before falling out for. 0700:
Link
Airspeed, Altimeter, needle and ball, beams, headings, Stay
awake! The instructor's cryin' again-Everything's off!
0800:
P. T.
Five minutes to run from link, change to gym clothes. Meet formation. The Sergeant: extenci to the right, extend to the le{t,
bend, stretch, jump, groan, rest. Jog around the gym three ·
times.
Dismissed.
0900:
Ground School
Five minute:; to bathe, dress.
Lectures, notes, engines, weather, navigation, Instruments.
"Now this gyro reacts hyar, hyar, and hyar."
"The level of free convection, as you can see
from this adiabatic chart ... "
"True bearing, true airspeed, check points"
11
"The secondary electrical system consists of ...
''Dit ciah di~ di+ - To L with it"
1200:
Mess
Hurry up W-t/, let's eat! It's been so long since breakfast:
1315:
Fall out! Don't forget your helmet, goggles, indelible pencil,
adhesive tape, knee boards, maps, logs, PIF, plotter, computer
(confuser). Sleeves up or down (must be uniform). Off we go into
the wild blue yonder ...
2000:
Mess
Drag it out W-9. Five minutes to get that zoot suit off, auxiliary
field dirt washed off, and meet mess formation. Hurry, the
schedule says.
2030:
Link -
2200:
Taps!
Code -
Important meeting!
Oh, my achin' back!
�Has Taps blown?
1ax; ! !
Miss H. P.
Our slap happy photographer
His "printing" is devine
Ain't \ove grand
Pair of Queens
-----X-C Hop
Men from Mars
San Antonio Roses
Wafch·
tng for Stork
�ADVAnCED
--
At last the d<1~ anne
we
had waikd for
I tl,,.-ew or.en its door
We <kcked our qroun~ speed ond .ETAS
And UJml qon£ on trips I tt>r 5'Nital relays.
And l-lnngar
UJe
Flying is tough
Rugged but right
90t our blues· and thoS£ awful 645
Gave "8 ,, a p.,r'UI , and did m~nial choris ·
Then came tlle time of g~t ~xpzdation
The lost
f<iw da~s b&,r~ 9mcluation!ll
Come on in the water's fine
Lucky dog
HANGAf\
Are we cleared
Some like it cold
.Some like it hot
*I
�G. I. Fashions
A happy foursome
"Genial Jackie"
The friendly
v
"eenes
And so into the night
What's wrong with this picture
1ne
0
c ..
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ano
''\)ecte''
Pretty, aren't we?
Blue Zoot suits
��iune:
San Fernando Va\\ey
USED 1'0 FLY A1 AVENGER
~Now
au're ano!her new class coming oTT the line
you may thihk we really hale to see you leave,
To W-5 from W-q:
1 used to lly at Avenger, l l\ew planes by the score
I used to l\y at Avenger, but l don't lly there anymore,
A p\lot came up lor a check one day, l askeci him what 1-\e'd adore.
l\ut don't you worry cause we really won't grieve
.
'
\-le said, "Give me a spin" l spun him right in,
Cause you've gotten your wings,
And you're \eaving today
You'\\ be ta\<ing a trip,
Down
the o\dthe
airway
For you're
million doll•r pilots so they say,
And \ don't f\y there anymore.
Variations:
\-le said, "Give me a snap" l snapped it in hall-
zooT SUITS AND PARACHUTES
You've got to show them that you're really o'r.ay.
You'll be making new friends in the forty-eight.
From Mitchell Field to the Golden Gate.
You'\\ never settle down, but be on the roam
With on\y airport operations your home.
\-le said, "Give me a date" instead al an eight-
B9fore I was a member of the A.A.F.i.O.
I used to be a working gal in Wc.1shinoton, D. C.
My boss was unkind to me
He worked me night and day,
I always had the time for work
But never time for play.
'.
1h
Chorus:
I·
RUGGED
1ust called up L
BU"t RIGHT
Singing zoot suits and parachutes
rambf"
,o
tell
A
I eat
ing woman
you that I'm . '
And wings of silver hue
fhat':ii::•;;ause s~e~k;~~ngt_wo~~~::tldut right!
He'll ferry planes
'
Like his mamma used to do
ve got b. an. any d
e ,mes a d
runk ev
tall and h,g electric facent gal in town ay for my boa~d night.
''." a ranibli~ndsome ma~ !o keep me co~j" afford.
'
I 1ust call d g woman
o keep me
while I eat
Along
Ho-Ho-He up to tell ' a gambiing w warm while I j
Ferr . came
We m 0- Ruggeci b ru that I'm oman and
eep.
He y,nkg a p/aa pi/of
We'veay fbe brown-skt Rdight.
rugged but right' am I tight!
D as ea'
no,
A own in I me to
W • go +hos
nne las ·
·
~d I lik over's I go ridin
And v_e got the well-built cha:;~s, but what d
Th,nkin ; a sill ane.
g
I'd
you're lik!N that sank th:'sh~d that do,:'; de c?re,
Climb
g ,t no h Y fool
I'd l'k ea f,fteen . apoleon it'
ips of Engla d ,e air.
To . ed in th arm
kee p the "'·1
e cockpit
'
My ~:t~~.makle i;1l~~;:/nbt~rmi:,raonu'.nWaterloo~ , France, and Peru•
.
CL
,vi ot
So let' b s a ways b
' ut I've g t your V-8
,
norus.
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f.
s re
.
een "G
a a It d
rust called eze ,t tonighf
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.
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.
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you
that
f'
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tn
the
m
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0
He he the b ornino
And anded reak of d
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Chorus.
a son, put ethr, e feac{hh-ave
b
er h a seon.done,
From this fie\d they say you are qoing,
You should be glad to gel the h - - , out al here,
fh
astard . ow lo fl
You are going to a field where there's menfolk
A e moral f
'" the sk y,
And whiskey and brandy and beer.< •
s You ca o this st
y.
s ne
n pl .
ory
No more ulcers from eating ~\ the mess hall,
A . Ver tr
a,n/y
' ,n inch ust a • see,
No rnore coffee \00 octane,
He'// k" above pilot
No more meeting formations at daybreak,
And Pro
tss yo
Vour knee
• u and
Or holding down Slearmans in the rain.
A .nd h m1se t b cares ...
Like a/tthe a
.e true! you,
Oh, the \ine up to the iohn wi\\ be over,
e ·1 tn ev
p,
ofs
do! ery field
You will now ha'!e your share al privacy,
Oh, the laundry bags are hung. from the sky hooks,
""l
0
~
ih:tr
eol
l
i;;
gi/
ihirty-si)( and four as they shou\d be.
So forewe\\, and to h .- - - with Avenger,
No more scrubbing the goddam f\oor,
Or reporting the curse to the sergeant,
You are free not to have it anymore.
I Wanna
suckle sm go back t
I used t ells so s o whar I
have I o think weet it d come fr
omk' whar th h
.Th ere ear
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ust ain't
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.
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days n you're _oh a life thars and I s,n.
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Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
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