A W.A.S.P. Takes Wing: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII

During World War II, more than one thousand women volunteers completed the WASP military pilot training program. Graduating WASPs piloted every kind of military aircraft, tested new and overhauled airplanes, delivered more than 12,000 planes, and flew over 60,000,000 miles. Thirty-eight of them died serving their country. Carol Simon Levin tells the story of the amazing WASPs through the eyes of Ann Baumgartner Carl, a Jersey girl who trained as a WASP, became the only American woman to test-fly experimental planes during the war, and the first American woman to fly a jet airplane!

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This program is graciously shared with us by our friends at the Parsippany Library.