Weiss, Margaret R.

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Native of Los Angeles, California and gratuate of Immaculate Heart College in 1948. Excelled in athletics. Joined the WASP, class of 44-W-7, and assigned to Williams Air Base in Chandler, Arizona, three months before WASP deactivation in Dec. 1944. Joined the Sisters of Social Service as Sister Laurencia Weiss, serving for twenty-five years in Los Angeles. Currently retired and living in in Santa Monica.

From the description of Margaret M. Weiss : an oral history / interviewed by Dawn Letson, 1997. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 50514200

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Women air pilots
Women in aeronautics
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World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
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