Gertrude Vreeland Tompkins Silver, a 32-year-old Women Airforce Service Pilot vanished on October 26, 1944, after departing from Mines Field in Inglewood, California. She was piloting a P-51D Mustang fighter plane on a ferrying mission destined for New Jersey, with a planned overnight stop in Palm Springs, California. Tompkins is the only WASP who went missing during World War II and has never been found.
On the day of her disappearance, Tompkins was part of a group of pilots ferrying n
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