Dorothy Olsen

American aircraft pilot

Dorothy Eleanor Olsen (née Kocher, July 10, 1916 – July 23, 2019) was an American aircraft pilot and member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) in World War II.

As a WASP, she was a civilian pilot, working for the military.Her assignment was ferrying new aircraft of many different types from the factories where they were built to airbases.

This freed up male pilots for combat.She died in 2019, at the age of 103.