High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
--John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922-1941)
Hazel Ying Lee Aug 24, 1912 - Nov 25, 1944 [/caption] 
Mabel Virginia Rawlinson Mar 19, 1917 - Aug 23, 1943 [/caption] 
Virginia Caraline Moffatt May 22, 1912 - Oct 5, 1943 [/caption] 
Marie Michell Robinson May 23, 1924 - Oct 2, 1944 [/caption] 
Gertrude Tompkins Silver Oct 16, 1912 - Oct 26, 1944 [/caption] 
Mary P. Hartson Jan 11, 1917 - Aug 14, 1944 [/caption] 
Betty Louise Taylor Wood Mar 13, 1921 - Sep 23, 1943 [/caption] 
Elizabeth Mae Scott Jul 26, 1921 - Jul 8, 1944 [/caption] 
Dorothy F. Scott Feb 16, 1920 - Dec 3, 1943 [/caption] 
Lea Ola McDonald Oct 12, 1921 - Jun 21, 1944 [/caption] 
Jane Delores Champlin May 14, 1917 - Jun 7, 1943 [/caption] 
Beverly Jean Moses Dec 21, 1922 - Jul 18, 1944 [/caption] 
Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck Nov 14, 1912 - Oct 16, 1944 [/caption] 
Susan Parker Clarke Aug 5, 1918 - Jul 4, 1944 [/caption] 
Bonnie Jean Alloway Welz Jun 22, 1918 - Jun 29, 1944 [/caption] 
Evelyn Genevieve Sharp (WAFS) Oct 1, 1919 - Apr 3, 1944 [/caption] 
Betty Pauline Stine Sep 13, 1921 - Feb 25, 1944 [/caption] 
Mary Ann "Marian" Toevs May 13, 1917 - Feb 18, 1944 [/caption] 
Marjorie Laverne Davis Dec 20, 1922 - Oct 16,1944 [/caption] 
Marie Ethel Cihler Sharon Apr 21, 1917 - Apr 10, 1944 [/caption] 
Helen Jo Anderson Severson Nov 2, 1918 - Aug 30, 1943 [/caption] 
Margaret June "Peggy" Seip Jun 24, 1916 - Aug 30, 1943 [/caption] 
Gleanna Roberts Jan 11, 1919 - Jun 20, 1944 [/caption] 
Margaret Sanford Oldenburg Jul 29, 1909- M ar 7, 1943 [/caption] 
Dorothy Mae "Dottie" Nichols Sep 26, 1916 - Jun 11, 1944 [/caption] 
Mary Elizabeth Trebing Dec 31, 1920 - Nov 7, 1943 [/caption] 
Marjorie Doris Edwards Sep 28, 1918-Jun 13, 1944 [/caption] 
Peggy Wilson Martin Feb 8, 1912 - Oct 3, 1944 [/caption] 
Alice E. Lovejoy Aug 15, 1915 - Sep 13, 1944 [/caption] 
Katherine Dussaq Mar 14, 1905 - Nov 26, 1944 [/caption] 
Elizabeth "Jayne" Erickson Apr 24, 1921 - Apr 16, 1944 [/caption] 
Cornelia Fort (WAFS) Feb 5, 1919 - Mar 21, 1943 [/caption] 
Paula Ruth Loop Aug 25, 1916 - Jul 7, 1944 [/caption] 
Frances Fortune Grimes Oct 7, 1914-Mar 27, 1944 [/caption] 
Mary Holmes Howson F eb 10, 1919-Apr 16, 1944 [/caption] 
Edith "Edy" Clayton Keene Dec 19, 1920-Apr 25, 1944 [/caption] 
Kathryn Barbara "Kay" Lawrence Dec 3, 1920-Aug 4, 1943 [/caption] 
Mary Louise Webster Jun 30, 1919-Dec 9, 1944 [/caption]