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The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of Wor...

Katherine Sharp Landdeck

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Apr 18, 2022 Nancy Brady rated it it was amazing

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According to the author's notes, this book about the female pilots of World War II took a couple decades to research and write. This reader can believe it as it was well researched and extremely complete. And totally interesting.

Reading the stories of this brave, daring women made for fascinating reading. From their stories about flying to the fight for legitimacy afterwards (taking decades for them to receive their due including the Congressional Medal of Honor for their time in the war, these ...more

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Feb 21, 2020 Barb rated it really liked it

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Historian Katherine Sharp Landdeck introduces us to Nancy Love and Jackie Cochran, who made it their mission to persuade the powers-that-be to allow female pilots to help with the war effort. Despite considerable opposition, not only from their families, from military brass and politicians, but also from male pilots, these two women began programs that would send American women into the air. While ferrying planes from production lines to bases where the male pilots would take them into combat, t ...more

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