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September 17, 2024

WASP of the Ferry Command Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds [Audiobook]

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Free Download WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds (Audiobook)
English | August 18, 2018 | ASIN: B07GJXKHQP | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 16m | 288 MB
Author: Sarah Byrn Rickman | Narrator: Michelle Murillo

In December 1943 the women ferry pilots went back to school to learn to fly high-performance WWII fighters, known as pursuits. By January 1944 they began delivering high -erformance P-51s, 47s, and 39s. Prior to D-day and beyond, P-51s were crucial to the air war over Germany. They had the range to escort B-17s and B-24s from England to Berlin and back on bombing raids that ultimately brought down the German Reich. Getting those pursuits to the docks in New Jersey for shipment abroad became these women’s primary job. Ultimately, more than 100 WASP pursuit pilots were engaged in this vital movement of aircraft.

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September 15, 2024

A WASP Among Eagles A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II

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Free Download Ann B. Carl, "A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1560988703, 1560988428 | EPUB | pages: 132 | 3.6 mb
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of them, Ann Baumgartner, was assigned to the Fighter Flight Test Branch at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. There she would make history as the only woman to test-fly experimental planes during the war and the first woman to fly a jet.

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