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02873aam a2200445 i 4500 001 46F801AE353511EB88BA481D27ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201203010017 008 200527s2020 ksua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020007597 020 $a 0700629807 020 $a 9780700629800 035 $a (OCoLC)1198088578 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ks $a n-us-ca $a n-us-ks 050 00 $a D790.5 $b .R36 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Ramsey, Raquel, $e author. 245 10 $a Taking flight : $b the Nadine Ramsey story / $c Raquel Ramsey & Tricia Aurand ; foreword by Maj. Gen. Jeannie M. Leavitt, USAF. 264 1 $a Lawrence, Kansas : $b University Press of Kansas, $c [2020] 300 $a xxiv, 288 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "This is the first biography of Nadine Ramsey, a stunt and racing pilot who served as one of 1,102 Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. The WASP flew domestic flights for the military, freeing up male pilots to enter the European and Pacific theatres of war. Nadine was one of only 303 women who ferried military aircraft. She was also the first Kansas woman to obtain a Civil Aeronautics Authority private flying license, and the first woman pilot to own her own fighter plane. The manuscript follows Nadine from her family's rural Illinois roots to Wichita, where she grew up and began her flying career. Flight would take Nadine to California, where she joined the Civil Air Patrol and later the WASP. After the war, while she retained her ties to aviation, earlier injuries prematurely forced her to stop flying, and she passed away before the federal government fully recognized the WASP's service. Nadine's story is exceptional, but it also reveals intimate details of women's early service in the military, and the trauma and lack of recognition faced by female veterans"-- $c Provided by publisher. berniece. 600 10 $a Ramsey, Nadine, $d 1911-1987. 610 20 $a Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Air pilots, Military $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Participation, Female. 650 0 $a Women veterans $z Long Beach $z Long Beach $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women air pilots $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Secretaries $z Long Beach $z Long Beach $v Biography. 651 0 $a Wichita (Kan.) $v Biography. 651 0 $a El Dorado (Kan.) $v Biography. 700 1 $a Aurand, Tricia, $e author. 700 1 $a Leavitt, Jeannie M., $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105040933.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=46F801AE353511EB88BA481D27ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search