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,…
The WASP of World War II By Sarah Byrn Rickman, WASP author and historian In 1942, as America struggled to arm itself for war, the leaders of the Army Air Forces (AAF) knew that airpower would be crucial to winning. However, we had but a fraction of the number of trained pilots we needed to…
Flight to Destiny – Pearl Harbor Revisited All of Pearl Harbor was spread out in front of Annie. The water itself appeared to be on fire. Japanese planes zoomed back and forth, diving, climbing, turning, shooting at everything that moved — planes, boats, trucks, cars, bicycles, people. Recall Reading These Words Back in January? They…
Totally Unprepared, We Were at War In early 1942, as America struggled to arm itself for World War II, the leaders of the Army Air Forces knew that air power — superiority in the air — was crucial to winning. Unfortunately, we didn’t have nearly enough planes with which to fight — nor enough pilots…
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