Research Catalog

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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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"--

Subject

• Scott, Dorothy Faeth, 1920-1943 > Correspondence
• Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) > Biography
• United States. Ferrying Division > Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female
• Women air pilots > United States > Correspondence
• Air pilots, Military > United States > Correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) 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.

ISBN

• 9780896729728
• 0896729729

LCCN

^^2016014519

OCLC

945948598

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library