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Finding Dorothy Scott : letters of a WASP pilot
- Title
- Finding Dorothy Scott : letters of a WASP pilot / Sarah Byrn Rickman.
- Author
- Rickman, Sarah Byrn
- Publication
- Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2016]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-13192 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 245 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Through transcribed correspondence, details the life of Dorothy Faeth Scott, a member of the WWII-era Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP); Scott died while in service to the US Army Air Forces"--
- Subjects
- Women air pilots > United States > Correspondence
- Air pilots, Military > United States > Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) Biography
- Scott, Dorothy Faeth, 1920-1943 > Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
- United States > Army Air Forces > Air Transport Command > Ferrying Division > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Author's preface -- Introduction : women in aviation 1903-1941 -- Becoming an original -- The race is on -- Next stop, ferry command -- Dallas! -- Back to flying -- The at-6 and more WAFS -- The statue of liberty is green! -- The winds of change -- Now we're WASP! -- Under the hood -- Crossroads in the ferry command -- October 8, a red-letter day! -- Pursuit school bound -- December 3, 1943 -- Women in flight beyond the WASP -- Aftermath -- Life goes on -- What might have been -- Recognizing the thirty-eight -- Congressional gold medal -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-13192
- ISBN
- 9780896729728
- 0896729729
- LCCN
- 2016014519
- OCLC
- 945948598
- Author
- Rickman, Sarah Byrn, author.
- Title
- Finding Dorothy Scott : letters of a WASP pilot / Sarah Byrn Rickman.
- Publisher
- Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rickman, Sarah Byrn, author. Finding Dorothy Scott Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, 2016 9780896729735
- Sudoc No.
- Z TT422.8 R425fi txdocs
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-13192