WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds

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I am a great admirer of the author Robert Caro, the pre-eminent authority on Lyndon Johnson, for his command of detail and the thoroughness of his research. In my view, Sarah Byrn Rickman is drawn from the same gene pool, for her definitive work on the WASP during WWII, entitled WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds.

Women pilots took up the ferrying role for all manner of military aircraft, from trainers to fo...