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a wasp among eagles
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Carl, Ann
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 CAR 2010 - B
- Description
- 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. She would make history as the only woman to test-fly experimental planes during the war and the first woman to fly a jet. .This book is the first-person story of how Baumgartner learned to fly, trained as a WASP, and became one of the earliest jet-age pioneers. She was the first woman to participate in a host of experiments, including in-air refueling and flying the first fighter equipped with a pressurized cockpit. In evaluating the long-awaited turbojet-powered Bell YP-59A, she set a “first” record that would remain unchallenged for ten years.
women in aviation 1940-1985
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Douglas, Deborah G.
- Publish Year
- 1991
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 1991 - C
1942-1944 ; the women Airforce Service pilots of World War II
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Verges, Marianne > (forew.)
- Creator
- Goldwater, Barry
- Publish Year
- 1991
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 1991 - B
- Thesaurus
- militaire beroepen, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten, piloten
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wright-Peterson, Virginia
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- VS 1G 2020
- Thesaurus
- militaire beroepen, journalisten, piloten, fabrieksarbeidsters, verpleegkundigen, entertainers, spionnen, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- In this chronological book the author tries to reframe the understanding of the war through the specific and powerful stories of individual women. It was their war, too. Women in Minnesota enlisted in all branches of the military and worked for the military as civilians during World War II. They labored in factories, mines, and shipyards. They were also tireless peace activists, and they worked to relocate interned Japanese American citizens and European refugees. They served as cryptologists, journalists, pilots, riveters, factory workers, nurses, entertainers, and spies.
Soviet airwomen in world war II combat
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pennington, Reina
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B3970 - B
- Thesaurus
- tweede wereldoorlog, piloten, militaire beroepen, USSR
- Description
- The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women pilots to fly combat missions. During World War II the Red Air Force formed three all-female units. Pennington chronicles the creation, organization, and leadership of these regiments, as well as the experiences of the pilots, navigators, bomb loaders, mechanics, and others who made up their ranks, all within the context of the Soviet air war on the Eastern Front She draws upon personal interviews and the Soviet archives to detail the recruitment, training, and combat lives of these women.
the untold story of Soviet women in combat
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Myles, Bruce
- Publish Year
- 1982
- Shelfmark
- USSR 1G 1982 - A
- Thesaurus
- militaire beroepen, tweede wereldoorlog, USSR, piloten
the wild and glorious story of American women aviators from World War II to the dawn of the space age
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Haynsworth, Leslie
- Creator
- Toomey, David
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 1998 - B
- Thesaurus
- pioniers, militaire beroepen, piloten, astronauten, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, onderzoek
- Description
- Beschrijving van de belevenissen van vrouwelijke vliegeniers vanaf het begin van de 2e wereldoorlog in de VS. Vrouwen wilden in 1961 meedoen aan de eerste ruimtevaartprogramma's als astronautes bij Nasa, maar kregen geen kans. Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar twee generaties van vrouwelijke pioniers.
the rise and fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Merryman, Molly
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1G 1998 - B
- Description
- This book examines the accomplishments and struggles of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II, their service, and premature disbandment, and how they finally got some recognition. The events, perceptions, and opininons that culminated in the disbandment of the WASPs are contextualized within theories of feminist history and gender construction in order to reveal how cultural constructions of gender, specifically assumptions about the roles of women in war, impacted the fate of the 1,074 pilots, who were the first women in the United States to fly military planes.
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