Nancy Love and the WASP ferry pilots of World War II

Nancy Love and the WASP ferry pilots of World War II / by Sarah Byrn Rickman.

She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the US Army.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rickman, Sarah Byrn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2008.
Series:North Texas military biography and memoir series ; no. 4.
Subjects:
Love, Nancy Harkness, > 1914-1976.
Love, Nancy Harkness, > 1914-1976
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) > Biography.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Air Transport Command. > Ferrying Division > Biography.
United States. > Army Air Forces > Transportation.
United States. > Army Air Forces
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Air Transport Command. > Ferrying Division
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Transportation > United States.
Air pilots > United States > Biography.
Women air pilots > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Armed Forces > Transportation
Air pilots
Military operations, Aerial > American
Transportation
Women air pilots
Luftwaffe
Flugzeugführerin
Weltkrieg > 1939-1945
Luftkampf
United States
USA
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Learning to fly
  • Learning to live
  • Stretching her wings
  • Tricycle gear test pilot
  • War in Europe!
  • Wanted : ferry pilots
  • Two women pilot groups
  • The originals gather
  • Growing pains
  • Killed in service of her country
  • Transport and transition
  • A B-17 bound for england
  • Change in the air
  • Pursuit school
  • The quest for militarization
  • In pursuit, coast to coast
  • Militarization denied
  • Denouement of the WASP
  • Flying the hump
  • Peace, prosperity, and parenthood
  • Life on the Vineyard
  • Empty nest
  • Fighting spirit.

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