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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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If you are interested...this is a great book about those women pilots
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II Hardcover – April 21, 2020 Katherine Sharp Landdeck (Author)


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SGT Mary G.
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CDR Andrew McMenamin, PhD
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I'll definitely check out the book - thanks for posting.
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SGT Mary G.
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. . . and someone has done a lot of work starting a page in time for Women's month: Women Airforce Service Pilot's (WASP)
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Women_Airforce_Service_Pilot%27s_(WASP)
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SMSgt Anil Heendeniya
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Awesome! Thanks for the tip!
Anil ;-)
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SMSgt Anil Heendeniya
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It's good to know this is in the works! Their story's been given short shrift in the past, and it's a great part of history that needs to be told. General Yeager--who'd come to the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base for his biannual Repatriated Prisoner of War physicals, would engage in different war stories, and Jackie Cochran was "one of the best pilots I knew," as he'd say, with that famous sparkle in his eye.
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SGT Mary G.
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There is the start of a genealogical profile for Jackie Cochran . . . so far only facts as the "bio" https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pittman-2023
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SGT Mary G.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown With all that talent involved in the film it promises to be well worth watching! Until the film is finished, C-Span give us this: The Women with Silver Wings
"Katherine Sharp Landdeck provided a history of the female pilots who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the National World War II Museum."
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SMSgt Anil Heendeniya
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I still don't think this nation has done enough to thank, compensate, and properly celebrate the brave WASPs who served with fidelity, gutsy determination, exemplary patriotism, and personal sacrifice--money, morale, etc., footing the bill for their own uniforms, taking up collections for their fallen comrades, etc., etc. Congress et. al. tend to move the wheels at a snail's pace as their "Do List" items travel further down in their assigned priority without either taxpayers' attention or their biggest donors' support.
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SGT Mary G.
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I agree - moreso after watching and listening to an excellent 45minute C-SPAN interview of the author of the book! Every minute was interesting. Thanks to Lt Col Charlie Brown sharing the information, I got carried away finding checking out resources about the the women I had never heard of. lol.
(link says error but it works)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?471832-1/the-women-silver-wings
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