BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//indianafreelibrary.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10 // CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8093eb4f-7692-429c-bc89-18828c6dc6fc X-WR-CALDESC:The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the W omen Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck ( 448 pages)\n\nWhen the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941\, C ornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two\, Fort had escaped Nash ville’s debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii . She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs be gan to fall\, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. Still\, when the U.S. Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the war effort\, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of just over 1\,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army’s rig orous selection process and earn her silver wings.\n\nThe brainchild of tr ailblazing pilots Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran\, the Women Airforce S ervice Pilots (WASP) gave women like Fort a chance to serve their country— and to prove that women aviators were just as skilled as men. While not au thorized to serve in combat\, the WASP helped train male pilots for servic e abroad\, and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eig ht WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these trag ic losses\, Love and Cochran’s social experiment seemed to be a resounding success—until\, with the tides of war turning\, Congress clipped the wome n’s wings. The program was disbanded\, the women sent home. But the bonds they’d forged never failed\, and over the next few decades they came toget her to fight for recognition as the military veterans they were—and for th eir place in history.\n\n X-WR-RELCALID:b50070e488446bbfb8e82eecc3536b51 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20251102T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 RDATE:20260308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:35d6cdcd-708a-45f6-8e9b-2b809abc4e45 DTSTAMP:20260408T134019Z DESCRIPTION:The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Wo men Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck (4 48 pages)\n\nWhen the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941\, Co rnelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two\, Fort had escaped Nashv ille’s debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs beg an to fall\, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. Still\, when the U.S. Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the w ar effort\, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of just o ver 1\,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army’s rigo rous selection process and earn her silver wings.\n\nThe brainchild of tra ilblazing pilots Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran\, the Women Airforce Se rvice Pilots (WASP) gave women like Fort a chance to serve their country—a nd to prove that women aviators were just as skilled as men. While not aut horized to serve in combat\, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad\, and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eigh t WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragi c losses\, Love and Cochran’s social experiment seemed to be a resounding success—until\, with the tides of war turning\, Congress clipped the women ’s wings. The program was disbanded\, the women sent home. But the bonds t hey’d forged never failed\, and over the next few decades they came togeth er to fight for recognition as the military veterans they were—and for the ir place in history.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T120000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring Tr ue Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR