Amelia Earhart's Daughters: The Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age

In 1942, with war raging on two fronts and military pilots in short supply, the U.S. Army Air Force enlisted a handful of skilled female aviators to deliver military planes from factories to air bases—expanding the successful program to include more than one thousand women. These superb pilots flew every aircraft in the U.S. Army Air Force—including B-26s when men were afraid to—logging more than six million miles in all kinds of weather. yet when World War II ended, their wartime heroism was left unheralded.