David A. Stallman

This is a tribute to the Women Airforce Service Pilots WASP, heroic young women who flew military aircraft during WWII. Trained as military pilots to shuttle powerful airplanes from factories to airbases, at Camp Davis, North Carolina, a select group flew more dangerous missions pulling aerial targets as antiaircraft gunnery trainees fired live ammunition at them. The book comes alive as WASP personal letters and diaries describe what their assignment was like day to day. fascinating and forgotten piece of World War II history, Stallman remembers that it is the people, not the planes that really make the story. By allowing so much of the book to be told in the words of these amazing women who flew the planes, he brings the people and events vividly alive for the reader. You will never forget Jackie Cochran, Betty Deuser, and all the other brave women you'll meet in this book.… (altro)