Gwendolyne Cowart

Career Cowart was "the youngest girl in the South to get a commercial flying license," That year, she made news for landing a plane in a cow pasture after it ran out of fuel.

During World War II, Cowart first served as an assistant instrument instructor for the U.S. Navy at Camp Gordon, before she became a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP). She trained to fly pursuit fighter aircraft at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas,

She was a member of the Women's Flight Training Detachment headed by Jacqueline Cochran. She ferried P-38s and P-47s across the United States. "You know, you can pick up a nice 350 miles an hour in those ships," she told an interviewer in 1944.