IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards 2024 Last fall I entered Cornelia Fort WAFS Pilot: Her Life for Her Country in the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards. Cornelia’s story is the ninth biography I’ve written about those remarkable women pilots of World War II. They were known first as the WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron). Badly needed, 28…
Cornelia Takes Flight Again! Friends, I gotta brag – again! Cornelia Fort WAFS Pilot: Her Life for Her Country has been named a finalist in the 36th Benjamin Franklin Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) competition. The festivities and announcement of winners takes place, April 26, in Denver, Colorado. (Close to home!) I plan to be…
“DON’T LET US BE LOST!” “Don’t let us be lost,” says Jerrie Phillips Badger, who served as a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) in World War II. “Women are so often taken for granted, assuming that they are the underdog – and they are not.” Badger, 102, knows of what she speaks. In the time…
WASP Archives at TWU to Present … The Cornelia Fort Collection Cornelia Fort is one of the most recognized names among the 1,102 American women who flew for the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II. They were known originally as the WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) and after August 5, 1943, as WASP…
What IWASM Has Done for Me September 1, 2023, the International Women’s Air & Space Museum named me the 2023 recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award. The second woman on whom they have bestowed this honor, I follow in the footsteps of Caroline “Connie” Luhta, the recipient of IWASM’s first Lifetime Achievement Award – in…
THANK YOU IWASM FOR THIS AMAZING HONOR On September 1, the International Women’s Air and Space Museum (IWASM) in Cleveland, Ohio, is honoring yours truly with their Lifetime Achievement Award. And I have to say, my 37-year journey with IWASM has been an incredible one. In 1986, I was the editor of the twice-weekly Centerville-Bellbrook Times, Centerville,…
35 WASP and 3 WAFS Died in WWII Thirty-eight WASP perished performing their patriotic calling — flying for their country in World War II. All were young women, age 20 to early 30s — women whose futures would never be realized. Cornelia Fort, a southern gentlewoman from Tennessee, loved flying. She also was on her…
Read an excerpt from Cornelia Fort WAFS Pilot BE FOREWARNED: THIS STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEART The heroine dies in the end, but you already know that. So read on – walk, run, fly with this extraordinary young woman who, during her short life, used her gifts to try to better the world in which she…
Cornelia Fort WAFS Pilot: Her Life for Her Country Know that in reading Cornelia Fort’s story you will experience the best of what humanity has to offer. Flying along with this fine young pilot, who died too soon, you will learn what it feels like to dance with birds, chase clouds, and fly the wild blue…
“Since I was a very small child, I’ve had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.” – Hilary Mantel Sarah Byrn Rickman’s journey … FROM PEARL HARBOR TO NORMANDY January 26, 1998, I stood overlooking the watery grave of the USS Arizona, sunk during the Japanese…
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