FILE - In this March 16, 2016, file photo, Terry Harmon, daughter of WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots), Elaine Harmon, speaks to reporters after an event with members of congress on the reinstatement of WWII female pilots at Arlington National Cemetery on Capitol Hill in Washington. It took an act of Congress, but World War II pilot Elaine Harmon is finally being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 7, 2016. Harmon died in 2015 at age 95. She was one of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), a group of women who flew military aircraft during World War II so that men were freed up for combat missions. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
FILE - In this March 16, 2016, file photo, Terry Harmon, daughter of WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots), Elaine Harmon, speaks to reporters after an event with members of congress on the reinstatement of WWII female pilots at Arlington National Cemetery on Capitol Hill in Washington. It took an act of Congress, but World War II pilot Elaine Harmon is finally being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 7, 2016. Harmon died in 2015 at age 95. She was one of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), a group of women who flew military aircraft during World War II so that men were freed up for combat missions. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File) Credit: Molly Riley

ARLINGTON, Va. — After flying military planes during World War II, raising a family, visiting all seven continents and bungee-jumping in New Zealand at 83, Elaine Harmon had one final, seemingly simple wish: to be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

Harmon got her wish Wednesday, at a funeral with military honors and a flyover, but it took a lobbying campaign by her family and an act of Congress.

Harmon, who died last year at 95, was a member of Women Airforce Service Pilots, who flew military aircraft on support and training missions during World War II so that men were freed up for combat.

Last year Army officials concerned about limited space at the cemetery ruled WASPs ineligible for Arlington. Harmon’s family fought back. In December, an Associated Press story about the family’s campaign prompted widespread criticism of the Army. In May, President Barack Obama signed legislation allowing WASPs in Arlington.

Kate Landdeck, a Texas Woman’s University history professor who has researched the WASPs, said roughly 1,100 women earned their wings while the program was in effect from 1942 to 1944. Thirty-eight were killed. Fewer than 100 are still alive, Landdeck said. The youngest is 93.

After the WASPs were disbanded, many of the records detailing the program were deemed classified until the 1970s, when the push to grant them veteran status began. In 2009, the WASPs received the Congressional Gold Medal, but the campaign to get them into Arlington exposed even more people to the WASPs’ role in history.