WASP FLOAT WASP FLOAT

The ROSE GARDEN

planted by some of the Donors, Contributors and Supporters who have made our Dream come True!
To add your Rose, please visit Donate Page or email Gardener@fifinella.com
your favorite WASP picture or your own rose pic or link or tribute
(click on the pictures for full size or other link)

- Jackie Cochran at the controls of P-40

Jackie Cochran

Helen and the Lake Erie 99's!, Cleveland, OH
(multiple donors - Thank you so much!)
Mary Hearn Nesbit,
WASP, 44-W5

Chancellor Place, Pasadena -- Home of several WASP, (Pinky, Gerri) Raising $ for the Float
Dorothy Smith Lucas 44-W7, (article) from Helen -
Robert
- Chandelle Winery (family of Hap Arnold!)



Katherine Willinger,
44-W-8 (NYT)


- - thanks, Richard



Mildred "DUKE" Caldwell
43-W6 Tournament of Roses

Nancy Love, Creator of the WAFS, Commander, Ferry Services

Nancy Harkness Love, Leader of the "Originals", the WAFs, and WASP Ferrying Services

Jeane




Geraldine Hardman Jordan, 43-W5 - thanks Charles, Mary


Margaret(Montclair, NJ)

Kelly (Oneida, NY)




Thomas, (Schenectady, New York)

Staci (Kailua, HI )

Helen Fronckus Okula
(who worked on the West Coast,
maybe helped build the planes that
the WASP then flew) --- Thanks, Susan

Genevieve Landman Rausch 44-w5 /
"Just like the one I soloed in except ours were silver . . ."

Thanks - Bob




Carol Brinton Selfridge W-44-5, grandaughter, daughter, Lt. Col. Christy Kayser-Cook, Air Force pilot and now physics instructor at the Air Force Academy, and daughter (the filling in our flying sandwich) at the Gold Medal Ceremony
A rose from Sallie to her sister, Doris B. Tanner and her 44-4 classmates
Juanita
(Mineral, CA)
Elinore O. Pyle, 43-W3
( Remembrance) thanks Lynne










Tex Brown Meachem
,
43-W7
thanks Lucinda

LISA (Fairfax, VA)



Patricia (Alexandria, VA)

Legendary Ginny Hill, WASP, Activist Ginny Hill Wood, WASP 43-W4 AK Hall of Fame

The ALASKA Garden

thnks: Angela ANCHORAGE AK! Celia Hunter



Celia Hunter, WASP 43-W5

thnks: Susan Palmer Alaska

Margaret Anne "Margo" Cook,
WASP 43-W3T,test pilot, stunt pilot - Alaska 99s

thnks: Leah, Alison


Pearl Laska Chamberlain
, WASP 44-W1T

In Memory of
Dorothy "Dot" Swain Lewis
, 44-W5

Thanks to: Glenn (Rexburg ID) / Kieko (Idyllwild CA),
Bill, Monica & Betty (Asheville), Susan (Leawood, KS),
Muriel Rath Reynolds 44-7, Genevieve Landman Rausch 44-w5, Julie (Luverne, AL), Jean


WASP at the LAAF


B-26 pilots at the Laredo Army Air Field

LAAF B-26

Navy flight cadets
1 of Dot's Navy V5 classes (Portales NM) Palm Springs Air Museum's P-63
"Pretty Polly"

Palm Springs Air Museum<

Rose Garden Page for the LEGACY FLIGHT MUSEUM The Legacy Flight Museum,
Rexburg, ID - - WASP exhibit, including "Trainee" statue







T McHumor

 The Congressional Gold Medal

The Congressional Gold Medal
- - thanks, Judith Nelson

Jean McCart, assigned Romulus Air Base Jean McCart, one of Dot's (left) students, Flight instructor after WWII








Jean McCart, 44-4

Thanks - The Welch Family, Mission Viejo, California

College Park Aviation Museum - on the Oldest Airport in the World
where full-size WASP statue resides. and exhibits from
Helen Snapp
WASP 43-W4, and Elaine Harmon WASP 44-W9



Thanks to the Palm Springs Air Museum - WASP Float Display

Future Pilots in their civvies . . . Howard's girls: Sarah, Emily & Molly



Ron (Greenville, OH)

Julia (Laverne, AL







Capt. Jim & Mary Jo, USN RET Ponte Vedra, FL (SunNFun)

Janet Lee, WASP 44-W6 Janet Lee Simpson, 44-W6,
18 yr old test pilot)

Sylvia Barter
43-W7
- (Remembrance)




CALIFORNIA

Janine & Alan - Alta Loma, CA

David (Sierra Madre, CA)
Nalena from Camarillo!
Deborah (San Marino, CA)

Marybeth - (Ventura, California)

Pearl Judd, WASP 44-W8,w/ Claudia McKnight, . . . Honored Gathering of Eagles, Veterans History Project, Minter Field

Sen. Steve Knight SOUTH CAROLINA Garden

Ray - Lexington, SC


Kim - Camden SC
Florence "Rubin" Elion Mascott,
WASP 44-W10-T
The Bob French Family!

Amy (Morro Bay)

Linda (Midland, MI)

Joseph, Oradell NJ

Alfred - Riverside Illinois

Rita from
Buffalo Grove, IL


Johanna,
ORLANDO, Florida
David from Tucson, Arizona
Susanne -
Duarte, California

Sallie (Costa Mesa, CA)

On behalf of our (SFV 99s) own WASP
Jan Wood, class of 44-W8
Pamela -
Arlington, Virginia
F/A-18 fighter jock Karen from Savannah, Georgia -- in 1998 with Vi Cowden, class of 43-W-4
Rio Brazos 99s - 2013 Homecoming Click for Pics! Click Here to visit sales site
Amy from Menifee, California Johnny -- Brookshire, TEXAS
 Becky Brown Stan R - Sweetwater Texas
Monica - El Paso
Andrea gives her ma a rose . . . Adeline Ellison WASP 43-W6
At the wishing well with escort
Bill - Texas National Bank Sweetwater, TEXAS
 SSgt. Veronica Lisa - Homecoming Dinner, Sweeetwater, Texas Joan - Homecoming Dinner - Sweetwater Texas John - Lagrange, Kentucky
 Rebecca - Homecoming Dinner - Sweetwater Texas Dayna - Homecoming Dinner - Sweetwater Texas Jenni - Homecoming Dinner - Sweetwater Texas Meagan - Homecoming Dinner - Sweetwater Texas
 Debra - Sweetwater Texas Gertrude Thompson Silver, one of the 38, only one whose body was never recovered Courtney - Homecoming Dinner
 Kitty Belle (Brookshire, TX) At Oshkosh Celebrating Jean McCreery and Marty Wyall Scarlett Mai (Brookshire, TX) Zan / Pacific Pallisades, California
Logan - Tiburun, California After the flight . . . Bruce - Boulder, Colorado (Hazel's Beverage World) One of the 38 Bettie Mae Scott - One of the 38 At the WASP National Museum Homecoming Peter and Marie / Salem, Wisconsin
Dawn Seymour
class of 43-W5, B-17s
In Honor Of Class of 44-5 by Mary McCoy, daughter of Lorraine N. Bain from Woodstock, Georgia Billy from Sanger TEXAS


Kelly / Pleasant Ridge, WI

Everlasting Thanks to the WASP; you rock! from SkySprite The OP-ED Project - "the voices of Women . . ." Sarah -- Lubbock, TEXZS the 38
In Memory of Katherine Joy (Merritt) Moore - class of 43-W7 M D / San Jose Katherine / San Diego "TOP GUN" "Everything's Coming up Roses!" - Amy (New York) with Lillian Yonally, WASP 44-W7
Ronald from Cherokee Village, Arkansas Kurt from WALES, WISCONSIN!

Mary Ann, Middleton, Wisconsin
William from Gulfport, MISSISSIPPI Andy from Friendswood, Texas / WASP Remembered by those who knew them . . . .
A Young Cowboy . . . Note the date . . . Instructing at Avenger
Dot Swain Lewis 44-W5/7
Daedaleus . . . why?  Just you guess! Our Good Friend from Tennessee

Richard, the First! Motto of the DaedaelionsVolabamus, Volamus!

Crystal & Mike Bee at Oshkosh with the Avenger AT-6 Bee Haydu
class of 44-W7

Marian Peg "Buff" from Alabama Edie - USAF
Andrew Jean Terrell McCreery 44 W-10 Shawnda Rick
Judy - Simi Valley, California Jessica - Elkhorn, Nebraska Madonna from Orland Park Grand Mashall Bee! Carol - Frederick, Maryland
"A Rose for you, Bee!"
Bay Mates
At the Wishing well - Avenger Field
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On Point Loma - San Diego Reunion . . .
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AT-6 Texans
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Postscript

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