31 records matched your query       

Author:

Carl, Ann.

Title:

A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II / Ann B. Carl.

Publisher:

Smithsonian Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

x, 132 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Carl, Ann.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)--Biography.
Women air pilots--United States--Biography.
Women test pilots--United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127) and index.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781560988427 (alk. paper)
1560988428 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

98039772

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

NWPC663 -- Nissen Public Library (Saint Ansgar)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)