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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.
the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mundy, Liza
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- VS 1G 2018 - B
- Description
- Book about the more than ten thousand woman, who served as codebreakers during World War II. They were recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges. Based on research and interviews with surviving code girls.
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
american women in the 1940s
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hartmann, Susan M.
- Publish Year
- 1982
- Shelfmark
- VS 1G 1982 - B
the world war II era
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Soderbergh, Peter A. > (forew.)
- Creator
- Hamblet, Julia E.
- Publish Year
- 1992
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 1992 - B
life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Henderson, Aileen Kilgore
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B1683 - B
- Thesaurus
- militaire beroepen, vrouwen in mannenberoepen, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten, egodocument
- Description
- Op basis van dagboekfragmenten en brieven beschrijft de auteur hoe ze als 22-jarige dienst deed in de 'Women's Army Corps' tijdens de laatste twee jaar van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Aandacht voor onder meer haar werkzaamheden, het dagelijks leven in het leger, het contact met de andere vrouwelijke en mannelijke militairen en de reactie van de publieke opinie.
- 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.
American women at home and at the front during world war II
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Yellin, Emily
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5809 - B
- Thesaurus
- tweede wereldoorlog, rolgedrag, militaire beroepen, etniciteit, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 1940-1949
- Description
- The author describes the different roles of women during the Second World War, a war that changed the way women participate in the American society. Described are the lives of wives, mothers and sisters of servicemen: the female defence industry workers, the female entertainers, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), women in the army, Red Cross Girls and nurses. The book contains also chapters on African-American and Japanese-American women, chapters on spies, politicians, journalists and other professional women, the 'wrong kind' of women (prostitutes, unwed mother, lesbians), the Right Wing and the Anti-Semitic Mothers' Group.
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