The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.Iris Cummings, right, in 1943. During World War II, she belonged to an elite unit known as the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots, or WASPs.
Iris Cummings Critchell, 104, Dies; Olympic Swimmer Turned Aviator
Scritto il 30/01/2025
da Richard Goldstein