Ebook: Sisters in Arms: the Women Who Flew in World War II

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART 1; Chapter One The Wings of War; Chapter Two Women at Arms; Chapter Three Winning Their Wings; Chapter Four A Woman's Work; Chapter Five The Wonderful (or Not so Wonderful) World of the Woman Pilot; Chapter Six Broken Wings; PART 2; Chapter Seven Handmaidens and Guinea Pigs; Chapter Eight Friends and Foes; Chapter Nine Separate but Not Equal; Chapter Ten Sum of the Parts; Chapter Eleven Age Before Beauty; Chapter Twelve There's a War On -- Or is There?; Chapter Thirteen Chasing the Chimera; Chapter Fourteen Captains and Commanders.;During World War II, a few, carefully selected women in the US and the UK were briefly given the unprecedented opportunity to fly military aircraft. Yet the story of these pioneer women pilots is made even more intriguing by the fact that, despite many notable similarities in the utilisation and organisation of the women in their respective countries, they experienced radically different fates. Throughout the war, the contribution of the women of the British ATA to the war effort was recognized and praised both from official quarters and in the press. By contrast, the American WASPs were first.