Margaret (Kerr) Boyland

A photo of WASP Margaret (Kerr) Boyland with her parents and siblings at Avenger Field, Texas - Saying goodbye to her family. She will begin training to ferry aircraft within the US. After she graduated, in August of 1944, Margaret was piloting a B-26, trying to land at Meridian, Mississippi. Her WASP co-pilot radioed in for landing instructions. According to Byrd Granger in "On Final Approach," a brusque voice came back, "Get those women out of the cockpit and then come down." After several minutes of negotiating with the tower, clearance was reluctantly granted. In the meantime, all the maintenance crews and pilots stationed at the field made their way to the flight line, to get a good look at the 'girl' pilots. When the two WASP stepped out, the male pilots and other personnel were shocked. No one on the Army air base knew what a WASP was.