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…
“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…
“Remember Pearl Harbor” “At 7:55 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, a Japanese force of 183 airplanes attacked U.S. military and naval facilities on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands without warning. For 30 minutes, dive bombers, level bombers and torpedo planes struck airfields and naval vessels. “After a 15-minute lull, a second wave of 170 planes launched…
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…
Annie Fights to Land the Cub … Conclusion 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. Please don’t let them come after me,…
FLIGHT TO DESTINY Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 CHAPTER ONE ( PART 2) The airport lay right next to the harbor. Tom tapped her shoulder, his mouth next to her ear so she could hear him. “Who were they, Miss Gwynn? Why d’ya suppose he shot at us?” “Japanese. Trying to kill us….
FLIGHT TO DESTINY CHAPTER ONE (Part 1) Annie Gwynn nudged the control stick to the left, touched her foot to the left rudder pedal, and put the small, single-engine airplane into a shallow bank. The right wing lifted and traced an invisible arc across the sky as the aircraft swung through a 180-degree turn. The…
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