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<p>From 1942 to 1944, almost two thousand women pilots left their civilian lives as students, movie stuntwomen, secretaries, blackjack dealers, teachers and wives with husbands overseas to converge on Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. There at the only all-female cadet air base in history they slopped into ill-fitting men's GI flying suits and marched into the "Army Way" of life. Six months later, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were sent out to fly every airplane in America's air arsenal, from the colossal B-29 Superfortress to the lightning-fast P-51 Mustang fighter.</p> <p>These unsung heroines flew some of the World War II's most harrowing — and surprising — missions, many which men refused to perform. "If there was a doubt in anyone's mind that women can become skillful pilots," said the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, "the WASPs have dispelled that doubt." But not before they were forced to fight for advanced training and assignments in bigger airplanes, subjected to unnecessary physicals, even jailed, for being what they were — the most adventurous women of the war era, who knew what they wanted and went for it.</p> <p>Over seventy of these air heroines

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Author

Sally Van Wagenen Keil

Publisher

New York: Four Directions Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780962765902

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.21 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14