The story of an exciting and unsolved Air Force pilot, a brave female pilot who helped the United States win the Second World War.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Fort Cornelia was already in the air. At the age of twenty-two, Fort is a successful debut, hoping for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. He and his students had just gained momentum when the bomb dropped and barely returned to the ground this morning. But when the US military asks female pilots to support the military effort, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of 1,900 women across the country – selected from over 25,000 – to gather in Sweetwater, Texas, to train for the Army Air Force in hopes of winning their silver wings.

In “Women with the Silver Wings” historian Kate Landdeck introduces us to this young woman when she meets the strong and methodical Nancy Love and demands the insightful Jacqueline Cochran, the woman who first planned to send American women to the air and whose competition will decide WASP. . For women like Cornelia, this is an opportunity to serve their country – and to prove that female pilots are just as capable and capable as men.

Although not qualified to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots to serve overseas and risked their lives for ferry bombers in the Atlantic. Cornelia herself would not survive the war. But despite this tragic defeat, Love and Cochrane’s social experiments seemed to be successful – while in 1943 the wave of war changed in Europe, Congress removed the carpet from the WASP. The Billionaires Fake Fiance by Annika The program was abolished, the women sent home. But the relationship they formed with each other never failed in the next few decades. They were united to fight for recognition as a military veteran – and for their place in history.

Women with silver wings are beautifully written and carefully examined are unforgettable portraits of these fearful innovative women and their long struggle for justice..