Author : Sarah Byrn Rickman
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574412413
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman Pdf
"When the United States entered World War II, the Army needed pilots to transport or "ferry" its combat-bound aircraft across the United States for overseas deployment and its trainer airplanes to flight training bases. Male pilots were in short supply, so into this vacuum stepped Nancy Love and her Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). Initially the Army implemented both the WAFS program and Jacqueline Cochran's more ambitious plan to train women to do many of the military's flight-related jobs stateside. By 1943, General Hap Arnold decided to combine the women's programs and formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), with Cochran as the Director of Women Pilots. Love was named the Executive for WASP."