Tag: Martha Wagenseil Davis

•  “I didn’t realize the sand was so deep; when I started to land, I buried the wheels.”

  

  Or How Martha Almost Washed Out of WASP School… In 1996, Martha Wagenseil Davis (43-W-2) visited Ruth Franckling Reynolds (43-W-2) at the Reynolds family farm in the Catskills. It would be their last visit together. Photo Credit: Women in Pursuit (1993) by Kay Gott; page 205 by Margaret DiBenedetto Martha: In 1942 I wanted to…

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  April 17, 2024

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• A WASP Warning, Ignored

  

  By Margaret DiBenedetto The aircraft was headed on a bearing directly into the tallest skyscraper in New York City. The year was not 2001, but 1944. The building was not the North Tower, but the Empire State Building. The plane was not a commercial jetliner, but a P-47 Thunderbolt, flown by WASP Martha Wagenseil Davis.…

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  September 6, 2023

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