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Finding Dorothy Scott : letters of a WASP pilot / Sarah Byrn Rickman.
Van Pelt Library D790.5 .R5297 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rickman, Sarah Byrn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scott, Dorothy Faeth, 1920-1943--Correspondence.
- Scott, Dorothy Faeth.
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)--Biography.
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.).
- United States. Army Air Forces. Air Transport Command. Ferrying Division--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Army Air Forces. Air Transport Command. Ferrying Division.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- Women air pilots--United States--Correspondence.
- Women air pilots.
- Air pilots, Military--United States--Correspondence.
- Air pilots, Military.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Biographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Through transcribed correspondence, details the life of Dorothy Faeth Scott, a member of the WWII-era Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP); Scott died while in service to the US Army Air Forces"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Author's preface
- Introduction : women in aviation 1903-1941
- Becoming an original
- The race is on
- Next stop, ferry command
- Dallas!
- Back to flying
- The at-6 and more WAFS
- The statue of liberty is green!
- The winds of change
- Now we're WASP!
- Under the hood
- Crossroads in the ferry command
- October 8, a red-letter day!
- Pursuit school bound
- December 3, 1943
- Women in flight beyond the WASP
- Aftermath
- Life goes on
- What might have been
- Recognizing the thirty-eight
- Congressional gold medal
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rickman, Sarah Byrn, author. Finding Dorothy Scott
- ISBN:
- 9780896729728
- 0896729729
- OCLC:
- 945948598
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