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Full Name	Gertrude Vreeland Tompkins Silver
AKA Full Name
People ID	671930
Title
First Name	Gertrude
AKA First Name
Nickname	Tommy
Middle Name	Vreeland
AKA Middle
Patronymic/Matronymic
Priorsurnames
Surname	Silver
AKA Surname
Father's Surname	Tompkins
Mother's Surname	Towar
Suffix
Gender	Female
Full Birth Date If Known	1911-10-16
Birth Year	1911
Birth Month	10
Birth Day	16
Full Death Date If Known	1944-10-26
Death Year	1944
Death Month	10
Death Day	26

Events, Dates and Places

Event	Date	Geo Top Level	Geo 2nd Level	Geo 3rd Level	Geo 4th Level	Geo 5th Level	Notes
Birth	1911/10/16	USA	New Jersey	Hudson	Jersey City
Disappeared	1944/10/26	USA	California				Was ferrying a P-51D from LA to New Jersey, but she never checked in at her first stop after taking off, which was Palm Springs in Riverside County, California.

Relationships

Relationship	Related To	Relative's People ID	Relative's Birth Year	Relative's Death Year	Other Date (typically Marriage Date)
Daughter of	Vreeland Tompkins	671968	1870	1956
Daughter of	Laura Towar Tompkins	671967	1878	1971

Military Service

Rank If Known Or Highest Or Final Rank	Branch of Service	Beginning Date if Known	End Date if Known
WFTD/WAFS/WASP Pilot	US Army Air Force/Air Forces

Military Actions Served During


World War II

Interment, Inurnment or Memorialization Information


Cemetery	Disappeared and Presumed Dead Without Any Clues to Whereabouts of Body
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As of 2019 she is the only WASP whose plane is presumed to have crashed who has never been found.


Women Airforce Service Pilots (WFTD/WAFS/WASP)
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WFTD/WAFS/WASP)
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Family Search ID	LR6G-FH9
Find A Grave 1	7986762
Famous per Find A Grave	Yes
Famous per Consensus	Yes
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Other websites	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Tompkins_Silver
Record Entry Date	2019-07-31 00:23:05
Record Last Edit Date	2019-07-31 00:23:05

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