She learned to fly in 1941, while teaching physical education at the Western College for Women in Miami, Ohio. When World War II began, she wanted to be a fighter pilot, but women didn't fly in combat. That was one battle she couldn't wage at the time, although she did find out about the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (later renamed Women Airforce Service Pilots). The program trained a select group of young women to fly newly made planes to bases across the country. After flight training at Sweetwater, Tex., she was assigned to the ferrying division of the Air Transport Command at Love Field in Dallas. As a WASP, she flew more than a dozen different types of aircraft, including the Aeronca Chief, the Waco biplane, the P-39 and the C-47. She completed 52 transport missions, including a trip from Dallas to Tucson -- she got lost and ended up in Mexico. Another time, she was forced to land in a plowed field when the carburetor on her plane iced up. Despite her skill and experience, she and her fellow WASP pilots were unceremoniously mustered out when the war was over. "Of course, you couldn't have men pilots sitting behind a desk with women still flying, now, could you?", Mrs. Ware recalled in a presentation videotaped at her church in 1994. A smile leavened the sarcasm, sort of.