What IWASM Has Done for Me September 1, 2023, the International Women’s Air & Space Museum named me the 2023 recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award. The second woman on whom they have bestowed this honor, I follow in the footsteps of Caroline “Connie” Luhta, the recipient of IWASM’s first Lifetime Achievement Award – in…
THANK YOU IWASM FOR THIS AMAZING HONOR On September 1, the International Women’s Air and Space Museum (IWASM) in Cleveland, Ohio, is honoring yours truly with their Lifetime Achievement Award. And I have to say, my 37-year journey with IWASM has been an incredible one. In 1986, I was the editor of the twice-weekly Centerville-Bellbrook Times, Centerville,…
35 WASP and 3 WAFS Died in WWII Thirty-eight WASP perished performing their patriotic calling — flying for their country in World War II. All were young women, age 20 to early 30s — women whose futures would never be realized. Cornelia Fort, a southern gentlewoman from Tennessee, loved flying. She also was on her…
Read an excerpt from Cornelia Fort WAFS Pilot BE FOREWARNED: THIS STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEART The heroine dies in the end, but you already know that. So read on – walk, run, fly with this extraordinary young woman who, during her short life, used her gifts to try to better the world in which she…
Cornelia Fort WAFS Pilot: Her Life for Her Country Know that in reading Cornelia Fort’s story you will experience the best of what humanity has to offer. Flying along with this fine young pilot, who died too soon, you will learn what it feels like to dance with birds, chase clouds, and fly the wild blue…
“Since I was a very small child, I’ve had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.” – Hilary Mantel Sarah Byrn Rickman’s journey … FROM PEARL HARBOR TO NORMANDY January 26, 1998, I stood overlooking the watery grave of the USS Arizona, sunk during the Japanese…
Dorothy Fulton Inducted!!! – New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame Dorothy Fulton, one of the original WAFS – Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, World War II, later to be known as WASP – was inducted into the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame, November 3, 2022. Long overdue! And what a joyous occasion for her family!…
HOW THE WASP WON THEIR MILITARIZATION From Sarah Byrn Rickman Here’s a little-known piece of WASP militarization history! Nancy Batson Crews – an original WAFS [the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron that preceded the WASP] – served 1972-1975 as President of The Order of Fifinella [1], the Post-War organization established by the WASP. During her time…
IT TOOK 33 YEARS FOR THE WOMEN PILOTS OF WWII TO BE RECOGNIZED AS VETERANS Dorothy Scott was the 25th woman pilot to join the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in the fall of 1942. Dorothy perished in a mid-air crash a year later – the second of the original WAFS to die flying for…
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Lies in State in Westminster Abbey Monday all eyes will be on London, England. There, the world will say goodbye to a woman many of us have known all our lives. I speak, of course, of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. My childhood, the part I actually remember, was during the World War II years…
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