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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Strebe, Amy Goodpaster, 1969-     Subjects     Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Soviet.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female.     Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.     Women air pilots -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography.     Air pilots, Military -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Strebe, Amy Goodpaster, 1969-       by title:      Flying for her count...         MARC Display

Flying for her country : the American and Soviet women military pilots of World War II / Amy Goodpaster Strebe ; foreword by Trish Beckman. by Strebe, Amy Goodpaster, 1969- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2009. Subjects Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Soviet.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female.   Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.   Women air pilots -- Soviet Union -- Biography.   Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography.   Air pilots, Military -- Soviet Union -- Biography. ISBN:  9781597972666 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1597972665 (pbk. : alk. paper) Description:  xvii, 109 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  America's First Women Military Pilots -- Marina Raskova and Her Soviet Aviation Regiments -- Patriotism and a Love of Flying -- Gender Issues -- The Ties That Bind -- The WASP are Disbanded -- Demobilization of the Soviet Airwomen. Requests:  0 Summary:  During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time in history. In the United States, famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, where over one thousand women flyers ferried aircraft from factories to airbases throughout the United States and Canada from 1942 to 1944. In the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova, Russia's "Amelia Earhart," famous for her historic Far East flight in 1938, formed the USSR's first female aviation regiments that flew combat missions along the Eastern Front. Sharing both patriotism and a mutual love of aviation, these pioneering women flyers faced similar obstacles while challenging assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. Despite experiencing discrimination from male aircrews during the war, these intrepid airwomen ultimately earned their respect. The pilots' exploits and their courageous story, told so convincingly here, continue to inspire future generations of women in aviation.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Kahuku P/S Library Adult Biography B STREBE ST BIOGRAPHY Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.54497 St   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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