01829cam a2200337 i 4500 424114078 TxGeo 20200415120000.0 200103s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019059114 9781524762810 hbk. 1524762814 hbk. (OCoLC)1135091150 TxGeo rda Landdeck, Katherine Sharp. The women with silver wings : the inspiring true story of the Women Airforce Service pilots of World War II / Katherine Sharp Landdeck. First edition. New York, NY : Crown, 2020. 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "The brainchild of ... pilots Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) gave women ... a chance to serve their country--and to prove that women aviators were just as skilled as men. While not authorized to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad, and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eight WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic losses, Love and Cochran's social experiment seemed to be a resounding success--until, with the tides of war turning, Congress clipped the women's wings"--Publisher marketing. 20200429. Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Female. Air pilots, Military United States Biography. Women air pilots United States Biography. QS5