Description: During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time in history. In the United States, famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, where over one thousand women flyers ferried aircraft from factories to airbases throughout the United States and Canada from 1942 to 1944. The WASP operated from 110 facilities and flew more than sixty million miles in seventy-eight different types of aircraft, from the smallest trainers to the fastest fighters and the largest bombers. The WASP performed every duty inside the cockpit as their male counterparts, except combat, and thirty-eight women pilots gave their lives in the service of their country. Yet, notwithstanding their outward appearance as official members of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the WASP were considered civil servants during the war. Despite a highly publicized attempt to militarize in 1944, the women pilots would not be granted veteran status until 1977.
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Signed By: Amy Strebe
Book Title: Military
Book Series: Historical
Item Length: 9 in
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated, Signed by Author
Topic: Flying, WASPs, Women Pilots, World War II
Item Width: 6 in
Signed: Yes
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Potomac Books
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Memoir
Era: 1940s
Author: Amy Strebe, Women
Genre: Aviation, History, Military, War & Combat
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 109 pgs
