Mary Anna "Marty" Martin Wyall

Mary Anna Martin Wyall was accepted in the WASP in May 1944 in class 44-W-10 and was part of the last graduating class in December 1944. As a WASP, she flew AT-6s, BT-13s and PT-17s. Post-war, she continued in aviation as a ferry pilot, flight instructor and owner of an aircraft charter business C&E Aviation. Marty has been instrumental in the preservation of WASP history. For 45 years, she personally maintained the WASP history in scrapbooks in her home and sought out the personal stories and memorabilia of other WASP. She served as the unofficial WASP Historian until the WASP documents and artifacts were made part of the Special Collections Department of Texas Woman's University in 1992. She passed away on March 9, 2017, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.