Marie Ana Aurelia (Mariana) Drăgescu (7 September 1912 – 24 March 2013) was a Romanian military aviator during World War II.

She was the last surviving member of the White Squadron, a team of female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II.

Her mother was an "independent woman" and music teacher, and her father, a military man, had become a colonel after World War I.

"[3] With the threat of conflict growing in Europe in 1938, Drăgescu was invited to join a new, all-female, aviation team which would become known as the White Squadron.

Once Romania was entered the war against the Soviet Union in June 1941, the squadron started flying wounded soldiers from the front lines to Bucharest for medical care.

And if we didn't have aerodromes near the place where we had to pick up the wounded, we had orders to land anywhere ... "[3] The white planes were hunted by the enemy, but not in the sky because they flew a maximum of 50 meters above the ground, and the pursuing pilots were afraid to fly so low.