Organizations adopt Wings Across America, WASP museum Published April 20, 2004 By Ann Easterling Air Force Officer Accession and Training Schools Public Affairs MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFPN) -- The Arnold Air Society and Silver Wings organizations adopted Wings Across America and the National Women’s Airforce Service Pilots World War II Museum as their joint national projects for 2004. The announcement came as more than 1,800 delegates from every Air Force ROTC detachment in America attended the organizations’ national convention in Denver recently.Wings Across America is a volunteer group formed to capture the history of the WASP organization during World War II.The project comprises three parts that every Arnold Air Society Chapter and Silver Wings Squadron have committed to. First, they will adopt and honor a WASP. Second, they will become national partners with Wings Across America and help get WASP history into America’s classrooms and communities. Lastly, they will join the National WASP World War II Museum.The museum will be built in Sweetwater, Texas, which was the home of Avenger Field. The field became the only base to exclusively train women to fly military aircraft. More than 1,100 WASPs were stationed at 120 air bases and flew 60 million miles in every type of military aircraft in the Army Air Force inventory.The women towed targets for air-to-air gunnery and air-to-ground anti-aircraft practice. In fact, they flew every type of mission that any Army Air Force pilot flew except combat. There are fewer than 500 WASPs living today; all are older than 80.For more information, contact Nancy Parrish at (254) 710-7202 or visit www.waspwwii.org.