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 ...
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 ...
To aid the Allied war effort, women flew a full range of bombers and fighters in World War II. Here, Americans Virginia Farr, Louise Schuurman and Helen Richey joined a photo op with the Air Transport ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! While in conversation with author and journalist Mark Whitaker, author Becky Aikman talked about how the American women pilots who volunteered to ...
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 ...
Recently, I stood in an airfield in Sweetwater, Texas, and looked up. I was wondering what it would have been like to take off from there in a small plane, flying into the dust of West Texas and the ...
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