Marty Wyall

Mary Anna Martin "Marty" Wyall (January 24, 1922 – March 9, 2017) was an American aviator. Wyall was part of the last class of Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and later became the unofficial WASP historian. She was instrumental in organizing the WASP veterans together years after they served.

Biography Wyall was born in Liberty, Indiana on January 24, 1922. She graduated from Shields High School in 1939, then went on to MacMurray's Women's College on a music scholarship. thumb Marty Wyall poses in front of a portrait of herself as a WASP pilot in 2008.After WASP was disbanded, Wyall worked as a pilot for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. She collected scrapbooks and obituaries, keeping the records in a converted bunkhouse on her farm. In 2011, she was inducted into the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame. She died in Fort Wayne on March 9, 2017.