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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: WASP of the Ferry Command
    sub title: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds
  name:
    name part: Rickman, Sarah Byrn
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: War declared, pilots needed -- September 1939-September 1942 -- The beginnings -- Coup at the water cooler -- Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron -- Building the WFTD -- October 1942-April 1943 -- Women's Flying Training Detachment -- Class 43-1, the "guinea pigs" -- Class 43-2 -- Class 43-3 -- Classes 43-4, 43-5 and 43-6 -- Three more women's ferrying squadrons formed -- January-June 1943 -- 5th Ferrying Group, Dallas -- 2nd Ferrying Group, Wilmington -- 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus -- 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach -- Welcome to the Ferry Command -- Missions altered, July-November 1943 -- Cochran and a power grab -- Nancy and Betty fly the fortress -- New mission for the Ferrying Division -- The air inspector -- The ATC holds firm in tussle for command -- Ferrying can be hazardous to your health, December 1943-July 1944 -- Ten WASP ferry pilots tell all! -- WASP fly "the game changer" December 1943-July 1944 -- Pursuit school -- Militarization -- Officer training school -- The first transfers -- 21st Ferrying Group, Palm Springs -- D-Day, the sixth of June -- A typical coast-to-coast P-51 delivery -- Winning the war, losing the battle, August-November 1944 -- The great transfer -- The fall out -- Ferrying -- the highs and lows -- Denouement, November-December 1944 -- Twelve WASP ferry pilots died -- Facts of life in the Ferry Command -- In their own words.
  note: Sarah Byrn Rickman ; foreword by Deborah G. Douglas.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army Air Forces.
      name part: Air Transport Command.
      name part: Ferrying Division
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Participation, Female
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Aerial operations, American
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Transportation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army Air Forces
    topic: Transportation
  subject:
    topic: Women air pilots
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Airplanes
    geographic: United States
    topic: Ferrying
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: D790.5 .R53 2016
  classification: 940.54/4973
  identifier: 9781574416374 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1574416375 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781574416428 (ebook)
  identifier: 2015046031
  record info:
    record content source: TXA/DLC
    record creation date: 151120
    record change date: 20170928105637.0
    record identifier: in00003601372