Thousands of books and films have been made over the past 80 years celebrating the bravery of American servicemen during World War II. But what about the 25 American women pilots who also risked their ...
SWEETWATER, Texas — The Sweetwater WASP Museum is holding its annual homecoming to honor the female pilots that flew in World War II. The WASP (Women’s Air Force Service Pilots) were a group of ...
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In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin ...
When author Becky Aikman decided in 2019 to write a book about the 25 American female pilots who flew planes for the Royal Air Force during World War II, she discovered that all but one of the women ...
Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Marilyn Mong of Leetonia holds a photograph of four Women Airforce Service Pilots before a lecture she gave Saturday in the old St. James Episcopal Church in Boardman ...
The first women in history to fly America’s military aircraft, WASP were stationed at 120 Army Air Bases and Army Air Fields all over the nation after their seven-month training regimens. The female ...
WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- The fog rolled in from Santa Monica Bay just after noon on Oct. 26, 1944, just three hours before Gertrude ...
Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe. A new book “Spitfires” tells the little-known contribution American women made to ...
During World War II, a group of female pilots called the Soviet Night Witches bombed Nazis after nightfall. Although rarely any mention of them is made in history books, they played a significant role ...
”Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II,” By Becky Aikman. Publisher: Bloomsbury. 368 pages. $31.99. Since President Donald Trump nominated a former “Fox & ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Thirteen female Air Force reservists have a special mission this week -- to fly several women who are pioneers in military aviation to what could be their last reunion, in Irving.
Some Air Force webpages on pioneering female pilots — from World War II to the modern era — have been taken offline, as the Trump administration continues its drive to eliminate diversity-related ...
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