Above & Beyond

Gertrude “Tommy” Tompkins-Silver

Class: 43-W-7

Born: October 16, 1912 Jersey City, New Jersey, Graduate: Private School, Summit, New Jersey; Pennsylvania School of Horticulture.

Entered Army Air Force fl ight training: Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, June, 1943 Graduated: November 13, 1943. Stationed:

Love Field, Dallas, Texas Assignment: Ferry pilot

After departing on a ferrying mission on October 26, 1944 from Los Angeles, California in a P-51 for the East Coast, WASP Gertrude Tompkins-Silver was never seen again. (She is the only WASP not accounted for.)

Class: 43-W-4

Mary Elizabeth Trebing

Born: Dec. 31, 1920 Royalton, Illinois Graduated: Oklahoma A&M College, Wilburton, Oklahoma

Entered Army Air Force fl ight training: Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, February 21, 1943 Graduated: August 7, 1943. Stationed: Love Field, Dallas Texas Assignment: Ferry pilot

WASP Mary Trebing was killed on November 7, 1943, when the PT-19 she was ferrying crashed southeast of Blanchard, Oklahoma.

Mary Louise Webster

Class: 44-W-8

Born: June 30, 1919 Ellensburg, Washington Attended: Central Washington State College

Entered Army Air Force fl ight training: Avenger Field, Sweetwa- ter, Texas, March, 1944 Graduated: October 16, 1944. Stationed: Frederick Army Air Field, Frederick, Oklahoma. Assignment: Administrative pilot, Engineering test pilot

WASP Mary Webster was killed on December 9, 1944, while fl ying as co-pilot in a UC-78.

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