Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II

by Amy Goodpaster Strebe

Book Overview

During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time in history. In the United States, famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, where over one thousand women flyers ferried aircraft from factories to airbases throughout the United States and Canada from 1942 to 1944. The WASP operated from 110 facilities and flew more than sixty million miles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597972665
• ISBN13: 9781597972666
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"