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Who were The Originals? Experienced women pilots - the first to fly for the U.S. military 28 women who dared to challenge 1940s barriers of gender, politics and bureaucracy Farm girls, socialites, daughters of working families, college graduates, from 15 different states, married and single, three with young children Young women - ages 21 to 35 Three of them died serving their country World War II heroines with "the Right Stuff"Based on person...

Presents the story of the women ferry pilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 different aircraft - 115, 000 pilot hours - for the Ferrying Division, AirTransport Command, during World War II. In the spring of 1942, Col. William H. Tunner lacked sufficient male pilots to move vital trainer aircraft from the factory to the training fields. Nancy Love found 28 experienced women pilots who could do the job.

Three fictional young women, each with a connection to a real historic woman flyer, join the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in World War II to fly aircraft for the U.S Army Air Forces. They are destined to fly "the big ones". Two get a crack at the B-17 - the vaunted Flying Fortress --- and all three end up ferrying the mighty pursuit --- fighter --- aircraft from the factories to the U.S. ports on the Atlantic and Pacific, from wh...

Presents the story of the women ferry pilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 different aircraft - 115, 000 pilot hours - for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, during World War II. Ultimately, more than one hundred WASP pursuit pilots were engaged in this vital movement of aircraft.

She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the U.S. Army. Love was hooked on flight at an early age. At sixteen, after just four hours of instruction, she flew solo "a rather broken down Fleet biplane that my barn...

More than eleven hundred women pilots flew military aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Thirty-eight of them died while serving their country. Dorothy Scott was one of the thirty-eight. Dorothy's extraordinary voice, as heard through her lively letters, tells of her initial decision to serve, and then of her training and service. The letters offer a window into the mind of a young, patriotic, funny, and ambitiou...

World War II offered women the opportunity to contribute to the work of the country, and Nancy Batson Crews was one woman who made the most of her privileged beginnings and youthful talents and opportunities. She was a high school cheerleader, campus queen, airplane pilot, wife, mother, politician, businesswoman. This work presents her story.