WASP Class 43-W-2
Dates: November 13, 1942-May 28, 1943
Number of Trainees: 51 trainees, 43 graduates
Place: Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas
This class completed training at the Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas. They then flew to Sweetwater, Texas, in AT-6s and AT-17s which were being transferred from Houston. The exodus of this class marked the deactivation of the 318 th AAFFTD.
Graduation Speaker: Colonel J. H. Hills, Adjutant General and Executive Officer, AAF Flying Training Command, Fort Worth, Texas
Distinguished Guests:
- Jacqueline Cochran, Director of Women's Flying Training Command
- Major Francis Heasy, Public Relations Officer, AAFFTC
- Captain H. G. Gibbons, Commanding Officer, 318th AAFFTD, Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas
- Major L. J. Jurdan, AAFFTC
Band: Big Springs Bombardier School Band
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Graduates
Adie, Lewise Dorothy Coleman
Anderson, Ann Ross Kary
Boylan, Margaret E. Kerr
Bridge, Catherine Vail
Brown, Marion Schorr
Buehner, Betty J. Bachman
Carter, Norma J. Emerson
Chaffey, Lois K. Gott
Critchell, Iris Cummings
Darnell, Barbara Russell
de Bernard, Katherine
Dickerson, Patricia A.
Disney, Virginia Alleman
Erickson, Patricia A. Chadwick
Fillmore, Carol
Genaro, Marie Muccie
Gery, Ellen H
Gustavson, France Dias
Harden, Emily Hiester
Hawkins, Ruth R. Thompson
Helm, Ruth Dailey
Hill, Geraldine B. Masinter
Hinds, Alma Marie Jerman
Huber, Mary Darling
Joiner, Betty Eames
Lamer, Zelda
Loop, Paula
Maier, Melvina K.
McArdle, Rita Moynahan
McKay, Mary Catherine Johnson
Moffatt, Virginia
Nichols, Dorothy
O'Brien, Mary T. Trotman
Pinkley, Avanell
Reynolds, Ruth Franckling
Roberson, Florence E. Lawler
Rownd, Helen Ricketts
Rupley, Martha D. Wagenseil
Smith, Elizabeth Whitlow
Stone, Helen S.
Trees, Ruth G.
Tunner, Margaret Ann Hamilton
Vanderpoel, Lila B. C
Trainees
Altree, Mabel
Booth, Kay
Cervenka, Lamona Brown
Higgins, Suzanne Leone
Lundy, Martha M.
Martin, Georgia F. Jacobs
Mickelson, Geraldine Ulmer
Mohahan, Dorothy Broadfield
Nichols, Eolyne
Weyell, Virginia