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P363 The Infamous Fifinella by Julia Lauria-Blum

P365 JamesJr, Michael and Caroline Frances Genevieve Hart. Caroline … commissioned as the first class of women graduating from the Air Force Academy

With the courageous women of the WASP, who risked their lives and received no recognition for their service until President Jimmy Carter in 1977 granted them full military status for their service.

P328 "In my day," Mom murmured into my hair, "we learned the subtle art of making them think they did it all by themselves. We just fixed our hair and put on our faces and a nice dress and poured the drinks." … “It's your day now, Audrey Fitzgerald. Don't hide what you can do. Not for anyone.
P355 Audrey decides to leave France and says goodbye to Marion and John.
P356 Coltrane Field. Nola and Tom Barrows are engaged

P310 "It was fun," Nola said. "T've never been one to have many female friends, but this experience showed me why I should. There's just nothing like a good gab session late at night with a bunch of like-minded women. I'll never forget you girls."

P304 Letter from Jackie Cochran
… December 20, 1944, the WASP program would be disbanded. … How grateful we can be to know our disbandment is the result of unexpectedly low combat losses.

P276 Santiago Blue suits Ms. Cochran had made for us.
P278 … we were not to be militarized.
Nola met a skinny bombardier named Stu.
P281 James is missing in action
P283 Carol Ann said. "Before I pray Gus will stop asking me about a summer wedding and, please God, a relief tube for women in these damn planes. Can someone create that already? Girls have to pee too!"
P287 Carol Ann Bixby dies in a plane crash.

P259 Audrey meets James at Buckingham Army Airfield in Florida. She piloted a Curtis P249 Warhawk from Fort Sam Houston.

P273 Officer Hurst from Wheeler Airfield. “I tell everyone who will listen about the woman who saved my life and taught me to fly.”

P254 They called themselves the "Originals" and had been ferrying planes for nearly two years now without having to go through any of the ground school training we'd had, due to Ms. Love's gathering a group of already military-aircraft-trained women, rather than the many women who entered the WASP program with no knowledge at all of military planes.

P254 … who hadn't been a part of the WASP program, but rather a part of Nancy Harkness Love's WAFS program-the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron.

P253 Yes, men did eventually learn that women can fly planes. Thank you WASPs for enduring this for the rest of us.

P248 And we'd heard stories from some of the women in the class before us of men they'd encountered that had confronted, ha-rassed, demoralized and criticized them for doing a "man's job." For taking jobs from them, no matter that we were freeing them up to fight in the war. As far as some were concerned, we too were a kind of enemy. A threat against a way of life.
P252 Japanese Internment Camps.