It took the skills, stamina and ambition of two very different women -- one from an impoverished ... fall of Warsaw in the early weeks of World War II. She wrote a letter to First Lady Eleanor ...

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As the U.S. tackled two fronts in World War II, it faced a shortage of trained pilots. In 1943, the U.S. Army Air Forces ...

In 1942, the United States faced a severe shortage of pilots, and leaders gambled on an experimental program to help fill the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Aeronautics curator Dorothy Cochrane explores the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and their fight for recognition for their contributions to World War II. Dorothy Cochrane ...

John Marsh did not fully grasp the significance of his mother’s role as a pilot serving in the military during World War II. His mother, Marie Barrett Marsh, was one of about 1,800 women ...

More than thirty years after the WASPs were disbanded in December 1944, the women pilots of World War II were shocked by a series of headlines in the paper. The U.S. Air Force announced that women ...

"Not necessarily to choose to become pilots but to become confident young women who can contribute to society, our economy and give back to our communities." Her passion for flying is contagious ...

We wanted to work. We wanted to do the mission.” Like many military pilots before them, most of these women had joined out of a love of flying, attracted to the challenge of carrier aviation.