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Signed, First Edition. "More than eleven hundred women pilots flew military aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. These pioneering female aviators were known first as WAFS (Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) and eventually as WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots). Thirty-eight of them died while serving their country. Dorothy Scott was one of the thirty-eight. She died in a mid-air crash at the age of twenty-three. This is her story." The WASP division was never officially militarized, the bill being rejected by Congress in June of 1944 as the Allied forces made greater preperations for a ground assault into Germany. This means that most women pilots in WWII never received healthcare, repayment of expenses, adequate salary, and never received rank or honors, not even in death while in service. Historians like Sarah Byrn Rickman seek to honor these women and their sacrifices so that they are not lost to history. Dust jacket unclipped. Some instances of bum
- Format: Hardback
- Author: Rickman, Sarah Byrn
- ISBN: 9780896729728
- Condition: Very Good
- Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
- Publication Year: 2016
- Signed: Yes
- First Edition: Yes