She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the U.S. Army.When the United States entered World War II, the Army ...
This is the story of an uncommon woman - high school cheerleader, campus queen, airplane pilot, wife, mother, politician, businesswoman - who epitomizes the struggles and freedoms of women in 20th-century America, as they first began to believe they could live full lives and demanded to do so. World War II offered women the opportunity to ...
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Disc-Us Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781584442646ISBN:1584442646
Description: Very Good. Bright copy with minor corner edge wear, otherwise like new, pages clean, binding tight. 411 pp. "Twenty-eight women pilots-ages twenty-one to thirty-five, with at least 500 hours cockpit time, commercial licenses and a 200-horsepower engine rating-answered the call of their country in the fall of 1942 and joined the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). " read more
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