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Identifier: MSS 250.Classbook.43-W-5.JEgan Title Josephine "Doty" Pitz Egan, 43-W-5 Classbook Photograph. Collection Creator Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII Part Of Women Airforce Service Pilots, Records 1942-1944 Date 1943 Summary Josephine Pitz Egan, 43-W-5 Classbook Photograph. Related Resource 318th A.A.F.F.T.D., Class of 43-W-4 and 43-W-5 [Classbook] Pilot Egan, Josephine Pitz, 1913-2006 Planes PT-19, B-17, C-47 WASP Class 43-W-5 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases New Castle Army Air Base (Wilmington, Del.) Corporate Name Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) (WASP) Courtesy of Texas Woman's University Passed away April 13, 2006

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

Lt Josephine "Doty" Pitz (Egan) WASP.

Teresa James/Martin & George Martin, Married During Wartime. She Taught him to fly and taught My father Robert Albert Wegrzynek Then Solo’d them as an Instructor. George made the ultimate sacrifice As a B17 pilot on a mission to France with the 96th Bomb Group. Missing in Action Pas de Calais 22/6/44 with George Martin, Co-pilot: Bill McDonald, Navigator: Ray Pickett, Bombardier: Mike Laytar, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lee Gem, Radio Operator: Jim Wright, Ball turret gunner: Bob Edinger, Waist gunner: Carl Carlson, Waist gunner: Joe Puspoki (9 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Joe Duch (Prisoner of War); flak, crashed junction of Rue Pajol and Rue Ricquet, Paris, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 5916 “ On Wings to War “ is Teresa James Martin book Available on Amazon.

Teresa James Martin was a WAF & WASP , and before the war a Wing Walker and Barnstormer. She grew up in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania near Latrobe.