QUEEN ELIZABETH II Lies in State in Westminster Abbey Monday all eyes will be on London, England. There, the world will say goodbye to a woman many of us have known all our lives. I speak, of course, of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. My childhood, the part I actually remember, was during the World War II years…
We’re Off to See the War Rooms and The Changing of the Guard August 28, 2022, London, England: A full day for the Rickman Five: the Tube into downtown London deposited us near Buckingham Palace, a popular place at 11 a.m. that morning. We were there to witness the Changing of the Guard – we…
EXPLORING THE YORKSHIRE DALES – UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL Yorkshire, England: August 23, 2022: Our search for renown veterinary surgeon James Herriot and the town of Darrowby proved futile. But if you locate the actual town of Thirsk in Yorkshire you will strike gold! The man you seek is not James Herriot, but James Alfred…
NORMANDY: AN UNBELIEVABLE EXPERIENCE! D-Day, June 6, 1944, was a long, long time ago, but those of us who were children then, and still are around today, remember it – if only vaguely. I was seven. I remember the headline in the Rocky Mountain News, Denver’s tabloid morning newspaper. That headline type was huge. Today I…
Happy 104th Birthday WWII Vet Dr. Monica Agnew-Kinnaman Last Saturday (February 12), I met an amazing woman — a woman who proved to be very much akin to the WAFS and WASP of World War II, Dr. Monica Agnew-Kinnaman. She’s known to her friends as Nikki and, like the WAFS and WASP, she is a veteran…
Nancy Love Takes Command of the WAFS By Sarah Byrn Rickman, WASP Author and Historian Part 2 (Continued from last week) Summer 1942, Colonel Tunner hires Nancy Love to recruit women ferry pilots, write their training syllabus and establish requirements to qualify for this new squadron. From left: WAFS Evelyn Sharp, Nancy Love, Barbara Towne,…
HOW THE WAFS OF WWII CAME TO BE On May 21, 1940, Nancy Harkness Love wrote to Lt. Col. Robert Olds — Plans Division of the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps — about the possibility of women ferrying aircraft for the U.S. Army. Two weeks later, Nancy and her husband Robert M….
The Magical Christmas of 1994 On December 20, 1994, the four Rickmans — we were four then — celebrated our older son’s 28th birthday in a village near Berchtesgaden, Germany. The U.S. Air Force sent him to Germany for three years and the other three of us joined him for the holidays. For dinner that night, we journeyed…
Molly Comes to Live With the Rickmans Three years ago, when my granddaughter Emaline turned 7, her heart’s desire was an American Girl doll. Doting gramma that I am, I went with Emy and her mother to the AG store in Denver where Emy picked out “her” doll, Mary Ellen. No, I’m not abandoning my…
The WAFS 0f World War II Our Luncheon Topic! Last Saturday, I finally got to meet Mike McCarthy, the gentleman who very nicely invited me to come to North Carolina in mid-March 2020 to talk about my book The Originals — the women pilots who flew for the U.S.A. in World War II — at the Veterans History Museum…
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