Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat, born August 28, 1917 in Argonia, Kansas, is the only Native American to serve in the Women's Airforce Service Pilots.
Her mother was from the Oglala and Rexroat started public school in Wynona, Oklahoma in 1923. She attended WASP training in Sweetwater, Texas and was given the task of towing target planes for aerial gunnery students at Eagle Pass Army Airfield.
When the WASPs were disbanded in 1944, she joined the Air Force and worked as an air traffic controller at Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico, during the Korean War. She continued to work as an air traffic controller for the FAA for 33 years.
She passed away in South Dakota in June 2017, just two months shy of her 100th birthday.
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