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Home Town Coffeyville
Last Address Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Date of Passing Feb 06, 2010
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Mildred "Micky" Axton was 91 when she died in Eden Prairie, Minnnesota after a short illness. She was to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10, but died just a month prior to the presentation. In her absence, her family received the award.
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Mildred Axton left the WASP program due to her mother's illness, who was taking care of Micky's child. She then worked at the Boeing aircraft plant in Wichita, Kansas as a flight test engineer. In May of 1944 she was the first women to fly a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. From 1958 to 1969 she taught a East High School in Wichita, Kansas. She was a member of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) for over 40 years.
Air Transport Command (ATC) is an United States Air Force unit that was created during World War II as the strategic airlift component of the United States Army Air Forces.
It had two main missions, the first being the delivery of supplies and equipment between the United States and the overseas combat theaters; the second was the ferrying of aircraft from the manufacturing plants in the United States to where they were needed for training or for operational use in combat. ATC also operated a worldwide air transportation system for military personnel.
Inactivated on 1 June 1948, Air Transport Command was the precursor to what became the Military Air Transport Service in 1948 and was redesignated Military Airlift Command (MAC) in 1966. It was consolidated with MAC in 1982, providing a continuous history of long range airlift through 1992 when the mission was transferred to today's Air Mobility Command.