Raquel Ramsey, Tricia Aurand

Taking Flight (eBook, ePUB)

The Nadine Ramsey Story

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In October 1944 Nadine Ramsey was thirty-three and she was flying the cutting-edge P-51 Mustang to New Jersey, its last stop before heading to the war in Europe. The irrepressible young woman from Wichita had long been determined to fly and the gathering storm clouds of World War II had provided an unexpected opportunity. Taking Flight is the inspiring story of a girl from Depression-era Kansas who overcame tremendous challenges and defied convention to become an elite pilotone of the few American women to fly fighter aircraft during World War II.

Taking Flight follows Nadine as she became one of 1,102 women to join the Women's Airforce Service Pilots and one of only 303 WASPs to take to the skies in military cockpits, transporting aircraft to bases across the nation for use in the theaters of war. This book marks her milestones: the first Kansas woman to earn a commercial pilot license; among the earliest women to fly the US Air Mail; one of only 26 WASPs who flew the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a fighter aircraftand the first woman to own one; the only woman in the country to instruct male pilots to fly fighter planes after the war. Disbanded in late 1944 to make way for male pilots and barred from piloting for commercial airlines, the WASPs spent the next three decades fighting to win veteran status.

Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story is a profile in courage of a woman who helped clear the flight path for today's female combat and commercial aviators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kansas
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780700629817
• Artikelnr.: 75674241

Autorenporträt

Raquel Ramsey, a retired teacher, is the widow of Nadine’s brother, Col. Edwin P. Ramsey, a decorated World War II hero, and the executive producer of his documentary, Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story. Tricia Aurand is a screenwriter. Both Ramsey and Aurand live in Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foreword
2. Preface
3. Acknowledgments
4. Prologue
5. Part One: Strong Roots
6. 1. Farmers and Oilmen
7. 2. A Family of Three in Wichita
8. Part Two: Earning Her Wings
9. 3. At Home in the Sky
10. 4. At War
11. Part Three: In Flight
12. 5. A Bunch of Gals
13. 6. Avenger Field
14. 7. Becoming a WASP
15. Part Four: WASP at War
16. 8. Ferry Pilot
17. 9. In Pursuit
18. Part Five: Lucky
19. 10. On the Wing
20. 11. Her Own P-38
21. Part Six: Restless
22. 12. Searching for Home
23. 13. A Decade of Change
24. Part Seven: Recognition
25. 14. New directions
26. 15. Settling In
27. Part Eight: Legacy
28. 16. A Look to the Future
29. Epilogue
30. Notes
31. Bibliography
32. About the Authors
33. Index
34. A photograph gallery follows page 96