As Memorial Day approaches, officials with Women in Aviation are asking aviators to honor the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) by visiting their graves and leaving a decoration, such as flowers or other remembrances.
Now in its sixth year, the #HonorTheWASP program was established by WAI to take place over the Memorial Day weekend each year.
WAI chapters across the country have organized efforts to #HonorTheWASP near them, but you don’t have to be a WAI member to participate. A database of WASP gravesites, including Google maps to their locations, can be found here.
The original database was provided by Texas Woman’s University (TWU), the home of the Women Airforce Service Pilots archives, and is regularly augmented through research efforts of WAI staff, according to association officials.
In each of the previous five years, #HonorTheWASP participants have visited and decorated nearly 100 WASP gravesites annually.