Bernice Falk Haydu

Bernice "Bee" S. Falk Haydu (December 15, 1920 – January 30, 2021) was an American aviator and served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) in World War II.

While working as a secretary, she enrolled in aviation classes on weekends, because her brother Lloyd was in the Army Air Force and she found that she also liked flying.

She owned a flight school with several other veterans, and worked for Indamer, a New York company that sold aircraft parts to India.

Haydu published a memoir of World War II, Letters Home 1944-1945, in 2008.

There is a plaque commemorating the work of Bee Falk Haydu at the Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey at Teterboro Airport, and her WASP uniform is on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

Bernice Haydu at Maxwell Air Force Base, June 5, 2014
WASP Congressional Gold Medal signing ceremony, 2009; Haydu is standing in front at the left.