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Cargando... The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II (2020)por Katherine Sharp Landdeck
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Many women served in the armed forces during WWII, but possibly no group is more compelling than those who flew planes for the Army Air Forces — later known as the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs. Katherine Sharp Landdeck tells their story in The Women With Silver Wings using a handful of specific women to emphasize the variety of backgrounds they came from, jobs they performed, hurdles they overcame, successes and failures they faced. Landdeck covers what happened before and during the war, but spends almost as much time on their battles for recognition once the war ended. Readers who enjoy American history and WWII will certainly find some new and enlightening information in this book. ( ) This book follows the fight for women to pilot planes during WWII, and the lives of the women themselves. The book also set up the rivalry between Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran, the two women who were the face of women pilots during the time. Throughout, the camaraderie between the women was featured, showing them at their best in difficult circumstances. After the women were discharged, the book seemed to bog down, I felt that it could have been wrapped up sooner. Overall, well worth reading. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II-only to be forgotten by the country they served When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Fort had escaped Nashville's debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. Still, when the U.S. Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the war effort, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of just over 1,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army's rigorous selection process and earn her silver wings. The brainchild of trailblazing pilots Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) gave women like Fort a chance to serve their country-and to prove that women aviators were just as skilled as men. While not authorized to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad, and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eight WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic losses, Love and Cochran's social experiment seemed to be a resounding success-until, with the tides of war turning, Congress clipped the women's wings. The program was disbanded, the women sent home. But the bonds they'd forged never failed, and over the next few decades they came together to fight for recognition as the military veterans they were-and for their place in history"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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