WWII Women Pilots

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The essay describes the origin, the need, the activities and the part played by women pilots in flying aircraft during World War II.

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"The women, although only civil servants, wore uniforms and served bravely. They had been promised military status, but when male pilots began returning from the war, there were some complaints that women had usurped their jobs as pilots. Women pilots who served in the war effort during World War II were not granted veteran's benefits until more than thirty years later. In deference to the mens' need for jobs, many of the women returned to traditional roles. At the end of the war, thousands of American women were dismissed from military service under a mandate passed in the early forties that had initially encouraged their participation."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Carl, Ann B., A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.1999
• Higham, Robin Air Power: An Overview, US Centennial of Flight Commission, http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/AP-OV.htm
• Keil, Sally Van Wagenen, Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World War Two. Rawson, Wade, Publishers, New York: 1979.
• Kerber, Linda K. and Jane Sherron DeHart, Women's America, Oxford University Press, New York: 1995.
• Lewis, Jone Johnson, A Chronology of Women Pilots and Women's Flight History, http://womenshistory.about.com/od/aviationpilots/a/av_timeline

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