WASPs: Honoring ‘The Women With Silver Wings’

Seattle’s Museum of Flight to host Memorial Day tribute to WWII’s female pilots.

Meg Godlewski

Monday, May 18, 2026 at 11:30 AM ET

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Women Airforce Service Pilots walk among North American AT-6 aircraft at an American base during World War II. [Credit: Public Domain/Museum of Flight]

Key Takeaways:

The Museum of Flight will commemorate Memorial Day on May 25 with a patriotic music concert followed by a special program.
The main event features historian Katherine Landdeck discussing her book, "The Women with Silver Wings," which highlights the often-overlooked contributions and sacrifices of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during WWII.
Landdeck's talk will detail how WASP volunteers flew non-combat military roles and faced dangers but were not recognized as veterans with benefits until decades after their service.
Admission to the program is free with museum entry, and the museum offers free admission to veterans and active-duty military throughout the Memorial Day weekend (May 23-25).

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This year the Museum of Flight (MOF) in Seattle will celebrate Memorial Day on May 25 with an hour of patriotic music performed by the Boeing Employees’ Concert Band starting at noon PDT.

Following the concert, the MOF will honor the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) by welcoming historian and author Katherine Landdeck, who will talk about her new book, The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. Landdeck, a professor at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, is a globally recognized expert on the WASP.