Women’s Service monument dedication booklet

… information courtesy of Gen. Kennard Wiggins, Jr., and Delaware Public Archives. To learn more, see the book Delaware Aviation by Jan Churchill (ATP ,CFII, USCGAUX) and Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired), Arcadia Publishing, 20 …

… sletter and air show participation. She received the Delaware Trailblazer Award in 1995 and was named to the Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame in 2001. She was a member of the Board of Directors of Wright Flight Y outh Program in Tucson, AZ, and s …

… near Dover, Delaware. The 99‘s inducted her as a member of their “Forest of Friendship” in 2002, and the Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame inducted her as a member in 2007. She was a life member of the First Flight Society at Kitty Hawk, Nor …

… lanes. ” (Photos and information courtesy of Brig. Gen. Kennard Wiggins, Jr.) Delaware Author, Historian, Pilot, and Aviation Pioneer, Jan Churchill Delaware has Janet I. “Jan” Churchill of New Castle to thank for preserving the history of Am …

… ’s pioneering women aviators in World War II. She was among the first Delawareans to be inducted into the Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame in 2000. A remarkably experienced pilot, she has flown for the U.S. Coast Guard and the Civil Air Patro …

… most missions by either airplane or boat. Ms. Churchill is the author of numerous books on various aspects of aviation history, including Pioneer Women Military Pilots at New Castle Army Air Base in World War II, On Wings to War, Hi …

… ings to War, Hit My Smoke, Classified Secret, First South Pole Landing, From Delaware to Everywhere, and Delaware Aviation (with Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (Photos courtesy of Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr.) 29 Delaware Women and Thei …

… dvanced rating in the W AVES. She was sent to Storekeeper school and learned how to store, issue, and account for aviation supplies and parts. Mary was assigned to Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Ellyson Field near Pensacola, Florida. Her ne …