A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II

TitleA WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsCarl, Ann B.
Number of Pages132
PublisherSmithsonian Institution Press
CityWashington, DC
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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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Baumgartner