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Nancy Batson Crews: Alabama's First Lady of Flight
ISBN: 9780817355531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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... A riveting oral history/biography of a pioneering woman aviator.
This is the story of an uncommon woman--high school cheerleader, campus q... |
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Betty Gillies WAFS Pilot: The Days and Flights of a World War II Squadron Leader
ISBN: 9781735059501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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The Originals: The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II
ISBN: 9781945091384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Flight to Destiny
ISBN: 9781570741104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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. They are destined to fly -the big ones-. Two get a crack at the B-17 - the vaunted Flying Fortress --- and all three end up ferrying the mighty pursuit --- fighter --- aircraft from the factories to the U.S. ports on the Atlantic and Pacific, from which the aircraft are shipped abroad to combat areas. Their access to real leaders in the WAFS gives each of three the inside view of how the war is... Three fictional young women, each with a connection to a real historic woman flyer, join the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in World Wa... |
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Nancy Love and the Wasp Ferry Pilots of World War II
ISBN: 9781574415766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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 U.S. Army.
Love was hooked on flight at an early age. At sixteen, after just four hours of instruction, she flew solo a rather broken down Fleet biplane that my barnstorming instructor imported from parts unknown. The year was 1930: record-setting aviator Jacqueline Cochran (and Love s future rival) had not yet... 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 ...
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WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds
ISBN: 9781574416770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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...
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 ...
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