Marion Stegeman Hodgson

Marion Stegeman Hodgson (1921-2016) was one of the first women to train as a military pilot in the United States. Her 1996 autobiography Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II was praised for its unique insight into the Women Airforce Service Pilots program in World War II. Her post-war work writing for magazines and newspapers helped bring to attention the fact that Women Airforce Service Pilots were never considered veterans of the war. Hodgson has been inducted into aviation halls of fame in Texas and Georgia.

Biography Marion Foster Stegeman Hodgson was born in Athens, Georgia, in 1921 to Dorothea and Herman Stegeman. Her father served as the head football coach at the University of Georgia at the time of her birth.