Joseph Martin Tschirgi graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1948 after serving as a Weather Officer with the Army Air Corps. Later at the Douglas Aircraft Company, he worked on the Sparrow Missile.
Joseph Norrbohm served with the Air Force for nearly thirty years and worked his way up to the rank of Lt. Col. He served as a pilot during World War II, the Korean, and Vietnam Wars where he flew B-29s, B-47s, as well as B-52s up to his retirement
Joyce Elouise Sherwood Secciani was born on December 25, 1921 in San Diego, California. She spent all of her school years in El Centro, California. Even as a child, Joyce had wanted to fly and, upon graduating from high school, she signed up for the government-sponsored Civil Pilot Training program at Central Junior College. After getting her private pilot's license, she joined a flying club with 10 members and shared a 65 h.p. Interstate plane. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, private flying was not allowed within 200 miles of the U.S. coast, so Joyce helped another club member transport the plane on a trailer to Arizona so they could continue flying. In January, 1943, she learned about Jacqueline Cochran's WASP program which was comprised of female pilots who were Civil Service employees rather than military members of the Army Air Force. She signed up and headed for Houston, Texas where she joined other female pilots in WASP Class 43-3. On May 16, 1943, the trainees flew all the planes from Houston to Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, which became their permanent home base, where they joined Class 43-4, which had just replaced the last of the male cadets.
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