Photo Gallery

Article referencing Robert Bixler (courtesy of Laura Shivers)

Article on Donald Garrison (courtesy of Laura Shivers)

Article on Donald Garrison (courtesy of Laura Shivers)

Annie and Katy Egan holding Josephine Pitz Egan’s WASP Award.

Article on Harry Hempy (courtesy of Laura Shivers)

Article on Harry Hempy (courtesy of Laura Shivers)

Josephine Pitz Egan WASP info

During the Second World War Marie Mountain (Clark) completed U.S. Air Force pilot training with the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). Following graduation in February 1944 she was assigned as a pilot with the U.S. Air Force, accumulating about 1000 hours in military aircraft, including the PT-19, BT-13, AT-11 and AT-6 training aircraft, the P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft and as a copilot in the B-17 and B-26 bombers. Her military service was at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Air Force Base where her duties included giving instrument flying instruction to male pilots, flying mock fighter attacks on the B-17 “Flying Fortress” and serving as an engineering test pilot for P-39 and P-63 fighter aircraft. She is a member of the Caterpillar Club, an organization of those military pilots who have made an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft. The WASP were the first women to serve as pilots for the US Air Force and were the pioneers that led the way for women to fly today in all the military services. In 2005 Marie published her World War II memoirs in the autobiography: Dear Mother and Daddy: World War II Letters Home from a WASP. Married Lt John Alden Clark. Passed away October 2, 2008

Flying Cadet John J. Joyce, Nav on Lt Green Crew. KIA 4 Feb 1944.

Flying Cadet John J. Joyce, Nav on Lt Green Crew. KIA 4 Feb 1944