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Book
Title:
A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II
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ISBN:
9781560988427

9781560988700
Publication Information:
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1999.
Physical Description:
x, 132 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
The memoir of a woman test pilot in World War II. The author belonged to a corps of women pilots on the home front who for the most part delivered planes and tested repaired ones. In her case, however, she experimentally tested the B-29 Superfortress and the Bell YP-59A jet fighter. After the war she became a journalist and sailor, sailing all the way to Turkey.
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