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Family of Nebraska woman pilot who perished in WWII crash will receive Congressional Gold Medal
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Family of Nebraska woman pilot who perished in WWII crash will receive Congressional Gold Medal
- Steve Liewer Omaha World-Herald
- May 27, 2021
- May 27, 2021 Updated May 26, 2023
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Lt. Norma Adams, of Adams, Nebraska, was a member of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. She got her pilot's license at 17, in 1941. Two years later, she died along with a mechanic on a test flight near the airport in Crete. On Saturday, her living relatives — two nieces and two nephews — will be presented with the Congressional Gold Medal, honoring Adams' wartime service, which included ferrying new military aircraft to delivery bases.
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Lt. Norma Adams' grave was covered with flowers following her funeral in October 1943, including a wreath from the Civil Air Patrol. She was buried in her uniform.
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“Norma Adams likes to fly, And to an airplane clings; And if by chance her plane should crash, She’ll get some angel wings.”
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This inscription appeared in Norma Adams' senior yearbook in 1941.
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Norma Adams' grave featured the unusual Civil Air Patrol marker. Sheila Day learned that the marker was actually for auto license plates.
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Sheila Day, a member of the Gage County Historical Society, noticed Norma Adams' grave in Highland Cemetery near Adams, Nebraska, while photographing headstones for the website Findagrave.com. She decided to make researching Adams' life her "pandemic project."
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Norma Adams worked for a flying school at the airport in Crete in the early 1940s.
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Lt. Norma Adams, of Adams, Nebraska, was a member of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. She got her pilot's license at 17, in 1941. Two years later, she died along with a mechanic on a test flight near the airport in Crete. On Saturday, her living relatives — two nieces and two nephews — will be presented with the Congressional Gold Medal, honoring Adams' wartime service, which included ferrying new military aircraft to delivery bases.
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Norma Adams worked for a flying school at the airport in Crete in the early 1940s.
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Sheila Day, a member of the Gage County Historical Society, noticed Norma Adams' grave in Highland Cemetery near Adams, Nebraska, while photographing headstones for the website Findagrave.com. She decided to make researching Adams' life her "pandemic project."
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Norma Adams' grave featured the unusual Civil Air Patrol marker. Sheila Day learned that the marker was actually for auto license plates.
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Lt. Norma Adams' grave was covered with flowers following her funeral in October 1943, including a wreath from the Civil Air Patrol. She was buried in her uniform.
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This inscription appeared in Norma Adams' senior yearbook in 1941.
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