Thursday, October 26, 1944. End of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Gertrude Tompkins Silver and the P-51D she was flying disappeared in a delivery flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ.
She was 33 years old and had jointed the WASPs after a boyfriend died fighting in the RAF. She was the only WASP pilot to be classified as missing during the Second World War.
