WASP Graduates - Class of 43-3
The Lost Platoon
Page available since 7/5/2002 - last updated 6/26/2003
Site Visited times since 5/98
Here's some of class 43-3 in Houston, January, 1943. Six months later what a difference, see below. Lois Brooks took the photo. |
Mary Belle Ahlstrom-Smith, Betty Arhicbald-Fernandes, Mary N. Beritich |
Clarice M. Bessent, Grace Birge-Mayfield, Lois E. Brooks-Hailey |
Lillian Conner-Roberts-Risdon, Emma Coulter-Ware , Marcia Courtney-Bellassai |
Virginia B. Crinklaw-Pierce, Betty J. Deuser-Budde , Dora D. Strother-McKeown |
Elsie Dyer-Monaco, Isabel Fenton-Stinson, Anna Franckman-Atwood-Isbell |
Gretchen Gorman-Graba, Francis F. Grimes (Killed in Service), Marion Hanrahan |
Elin Harte-Raimondi, Lois Hollingsworth-Ziler , Shirley Ingalls-Thackara |
Elaine Jones, Louise Kidd, Florence E. Knight |
Vilma Lazar-Qualls, Mary L. Leatherbee, Bertha Link-Trasky |
Frederica McAfee-Richardson, Beatrice A. T. Medes, Katherine A. Menges-Brick |
Laurine Y. Nielsen, Elinore Owen-Pyle, Jean Hanmer Pearson |
Esther Poole-Berner, Mabel Rawlinson ( Killed in Service ), Marie Shale |
Joyce Sherwood-Secciani, Mildred Toner-Chapin |
Invitations sent for Graduation day for class 43-3 |
They were known as The Lost Platoon, because they were the last class to start training in Houston and never realy fit in at Sweetwater. We are the Lost Platoon. We could fly to the moon. We do inverted loops without parachuts. We peel off in a dive, some say that's suicide. Slap-happy though we seem, we're really on the beam. |
WASP Arhives
WASPs on the Web
If you have something you would like to share, please contact me.
Prepared by C. Andy Hailey, K.O.W (Kid Of a WASP)
The WAWG Blog