Logged one mile of activity on April 14, 2023. Betty Clements was born in Elmwood, Nebraska, on April 14, 1918. … After graduating from the University of Nebraska with a degree in education in 1939, … She took her first flying lessons while employed in McCook. … Having earned her private pilot's license in 1942, Clements entered the Army Air Corps Flight Training program in February of 1943. She was commissioned as a WASP (Women's Airforce Service Pilot) and her duties included Air Transport Command duty, transport duty for the atomic bomb group, and test flight duty.