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Fly gals of World War II : Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) /
- Title
- Fly gals of World War II : Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) / Eleanor Thompson Wortz.
- Author
- Wortz, Eleanor Thompson, 1921-
- Publication
- Los Gatos, Cailf. : Robertson Pub., 2011.
- ©2011
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- iii, 159 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Fly gals of World War II is a feisty young southern woman's account of her two years with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Eleanor Thompson had determined at the age of 12 that she would fly. She earned a private pilot's licence at 19. At 21 she became the first WASP from North Carolina. Eleanor and other WASPS acted as test pilots, flew weather missions, towed targets for male piots, chauffered generals, and met fierce discrimination from the male world. Once privy to Eleanor's story, no reader will question that she and the other brave women of the WASP deserved the Congressional Gold Medal, which they were awarded in 2010.
- Subject
- Air pilots, Military > United States > Biography
- Catawba College > Alumni and alumnae > Biography
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) > History
- Women air pilots > United States > Biography
- Women test pilots > United States > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 > United States
- Wortz, Eleanor Thompson, 1921-
- ISBN
- 9781611700343
- 1611700345
- LCCN
- 2011929982
- OCLC
- 763124687
- ocn763124687
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library