Nancy Love and the Wasp Ferry Pilots of World War II - Rickman, Sarah Byrn
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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 US Army.

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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 US Army.
Autorenporträt
Sarah Byrn Rickman left her newspaper editor job in 1989 to write books. A Masters in Creative Writing, coupled with access to the WASP and WAFS through her freelance job with the International Women's Air and Space Museum, produced first an award-winning WASP novel, Flight from Fear, and then The Originals: The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II . While writing The Originals, Rickman came to realize the need for founder Nancy Love's biography. Rickman was awarded the Seventh Annual Combs Gates Award by the National Aviation Hall of Fame for her outstanding work on the women pilots of World War II.