Magid served as a WASP from 1942 to 1944. She trained in
Sweetwater Dam Naval Outlying Landing Field with fellow pilot Marie Mitchell Robinson and was stationed in
Cochran Field, Georgia, while Robinson was stationed at the
Victorville Air Force Base in California. On October 2, 1944, Robinson was killed in a B-25 crash; Magid wrote
Celestial Flights while awaiting a transport plane to Robinson's funeral. After WASP disbanded in late 1944, Magid worked as an administrative assistance in the White House where she met and married her husband, Col. Louis Magid, who also served in the U.S. Air Force and died in 2002. Magid went on to become a freelance writer for a number of publications, such as
Boys’ Life and
Family Circle, as well as an awarded practitioner of
ikebana. Magid is one of a small handful of WASP members to be buried at
Arlington National Cemetery. In 2015, army officials reversed the decision and forbade WASPs from being buried at Arlington; the decision was overturned by a bipartisan bill signed in 2016 by President Obama. == References ==