Virginia Garst

Virginia Garst held a Commercial license and an instructor's rating with slightly over 500 hours of flight time when she applied for service in the British Air Transport Auxiliary. She was 23 years old at the time of her application. She traveled to England with the second group of American women in April of 1942. Garst left her service to the ATA in November of 1942 due to complications from a hospital stay during the fall of 1942.