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Flight of Destiny

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

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Three fictional young women, each with a connection to a real historic woman flyer, join the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in World War II to fly aircraft for the U.S Army Air Forces. The real story of the real WAFS is told through the eyes of these three fictional, but very believable characters.

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1570741107

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9781570741104

WASP of the Ferry Command

Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

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WASP of the Ferry Command

Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

WASP of the Ferry Command is the story of the women ferry pilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 different aircraft—115,000 pilot hours—for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, during World War II. In the spring of 1942, Col. William H. Tunner lacked sufficient male pilots to move vital trainer aircraft from the factory to the training fields. Nancy Love found 28 experienced women pilots who could do the job. They, along with graduates of the Army's flight training school for women--established by Jacqueline Cochran--performed this duty until fall 1943, when manufacture of trainers ceased. In December 1943 the women ferry pilots went back to school to learn to fly high-performance WWII fighters, known as pursuits. By January 1944 they began delivering high performance P-51s, 47s, and 39s. Prior to D-Day and beyond, P-51s were crucial to the air war over Germany. They had the range to escort B-17s and B-24s from England to Berlin and back on bombing raids that ultimately brought down the German Reich. Getting those pursuits to the docks in New Jersey for shipment abroad became these women's primary job. Ultimately, more than one hundred WASP pursuit pilots were engaged in this vital movement of aircraft.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574416375

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9781574416374

The Originals

The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

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The Originals

The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

Who were The Originals?Experienced women pilots ¿ the first to fly for the U.S. military28 women who dared to challenge 1940s barriers of gender, politics and bureaucracyFarm girls, socialites, daughters of working families, college graduates; from 15 different states; married and single; three with young childrenYoung women ¿ ages 21 to 35Three of them died serving their countryWorld War II heroines with ¿the Right Stuff¿Based on personal interviews with the nine who were still alive as of 2000, on papers and diaries, and on interviews and correspondence with descendants and others who knew them. This book tells the story of the WAFS, who they were, how they are different from the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots), and how they ultimately became part of the WASPs. A must reference book for libraries in aviation communities, but it reads like a novel. Second Edition, Revised and Updated.

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194509138X

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9781945091384

Nancy Batson Crews

Alabama's First Lady of Flight

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

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Nancy Batson Crews

Alabama's First Lady of Flight

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

A riveting oral history/biography of a pioneering woman aviator. This is the story of an uncommon woman--high school cheerleader, campus queen, airplane pilot, wife, mother, politician, business-woman--who epitomizes the struggles and freedoms of women in 20th-century America, as they first began to believe they could live full lives and demanded to do so. World War II offered women the opportunity to contribute to the work of the country, and Nancy Batson Crews was one woman who made the most of her privileged beginnings and youthful talents and opportunities. In love with flying from the time she first saw Charles Lindbergh in Birmingham, (October 1927), Crews began her aviation career in 1939 as one of only five young women chosen for Civilian Pilot Training at the University of Alabama. Later, Crews became the 20th woman of 28 to qualify as an "Original" Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) pilot, employed during World War II shuttling P-38, P-47, and P-51 high-performance aircrafts from factory to staging areas and to and from maintenance and training sites. Before the war was over, 1,102 American women would qualify to fly Army airplanes. Many of these female pilots were forced out of aviation after the war as males returning from combat theater assignments took over their roles. But Crews continued to fly, from gliders to turbojets to J-3 Cubs, in a postwar career that began in California and then resumed in Alabama. The author was a freelance journalist looking to write about the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) when she met an elderly, but still vital, Nancy Batson Crews. The former aviatrix held a reunion of the surviving nine WAFS for an interview with them and Crews, recording hours of her own testimony and remembrance before Crews's death from cancer in 2001. After helping lead the fight in the '70s for WASP to win veteran status, it was fitting that Nancy Batson Crews was buried with full military honors.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817355537

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9780817355531

Betty Gillies WAFS Pilot: The Days and Flights of a World War II Squadron Leader

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

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Betty Gillies WAFS Pilot: The Days and Flights of a World War II Squadron Leader

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

BETTY'S TELEGRAM ARRIVED on September 6, 1942. "What should I do?" she asked Bud, her husband. "Isn't this just what you've been preparing for and wanting to do? Go, of course." Betty held a twin-engine aircraft rating and an instrument rating. She had 1,261 flying hours in her logbook. The following morning, she embarked on what became the greatest adventure of her life. What a treat! This is a book for everyone-not just for pilots or history buffs. You will be climbing into the cockpit with an impressive list of pilots, in some of WWII's most amazing aircraft. Reading Betty GilIies's story, I gained a perspective of the world of aviation during WWII from the women who stepped up to fill those cockpits.-TAMMIE JO SHULTS, Pilot, Author, and Captain of Southwest Flight 1380, April 17, 2018 Kudos to Sarah Byrn Rickman for Betty Gillies: WAFS Pilot! Gillies was a trailblazing woman who volunteered to do a dangerous job with determination and incredible bravery. Carefully researched, historically revealing, her story shows us what strong women can do. -SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT Author of The General's Women and Loving Eleanor. Betty Gillies-WAFS founder/leader Nancy Love's second-in-command-personifies the women ferry pilots' WWII role. Pre-war, as 99s president, Betty fought for a pregnant pilot's right to fly. Post-war, she chaired the All-Woman's Transcontinental Air Race in its growth years. Betty's dedicated leadership defines women's aviation today.-JACQUELINE BOYD, PHD Chair, Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund, The Ninety-Nines, Inc.

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Flight to Destiny Press

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1735059501

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9781735059501

Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II

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Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II

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When the United States entered World War II, the Army needed pilots to transport or "ferry" its combat-bound aircraft across the United States for overseas deployment and its trainer airplanes to flight training bases. Male pilots were in short supply, so into this vacuum stepped Nancy Love and her Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). Initially the Army implemented both the WAFS program and Jacqueline Cochran's more ambitious plan to train women to do many of the military's flight-related jobs stateside. By 1943, General Hap Arnold decided to combine the women's programs and formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), with Cochran as the Director of Women Pilots. Love was named the Executive for WASP.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574412418

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9781574412413

Nancy Batson Crews

Alabama's First Lady of Flight

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

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Alabama's First Lady of Flight

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WASP of the Ferry Command

Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

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Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds

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