SWEETWATER, Texas — The National Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) WWII Museum, located in Sweetwater, commemorates the trailblazing women who broke barriers in a male-dominated field. Lisa ...

SWEETWATER, Texas — The Sweetwater WASP Museum is holding its annual homecoming to honor the female pilots that flew in World War II. The WASP (Women’s Air Force Service Pilots) were a group ...

17 WASP have their ashes spread across the Avenger Field as part of a new memorial garden featured outside of the museum. The museum in Sweetwater is the only one dedicated solely to the WWII WASP ...

SWEETWATER — Even Fifi flew in for the 20 th anniversary of the National WASP WWII Museum. Lia Cherny came for the reunion and fly-in all the way from Philadelphia with her mother Meghan. The 12 ...

“The WASPs flew 60 million miles in every type of plane,” Marilyn Mong of Leetonia said. The estimated 1,074 women who flew noncombat missions in 1943 and 1944 were the subject of a lecture ...

Some of the WASPs also flew PQ-8s remotely. They were the first drones, and they communicated with radio-controlled aircraft, Mong said. Radio control pilots often manned PQ-8 and PQ-14 drones from ...

Search Begins for Last Lost Woman Pilot of WWII WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944.

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Looking back in history to World War II, the Women Airforce Service Pilots were superheroes of aviation. They were the first women to fly U.S. military aircraft, and ...