Clipped Wings : : The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II / / Molly Merryman.
Revives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a LegacyDuring World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, however, was ma...
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Merryman, Molly, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Clipped Wings : The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II / Molly Merryman. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface to the NYU Classics Edition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Development of the Women Airforce Service Pilots: From Guarded Experiment to Valuable Support Role -- 3. Becoming Soldiers: Tracing WASP Expansion and Plans for Militarization -- 4. From Praise to Rancor: Media Opinion Changes as Men Return from Battle -- 5. No Allies for the WASPs: Congress Responds to Male Public Interest Groups -- 6. They’ll Be Home for Christmas: The WASP Program Disbands -- 7. On a Different Battlefield: The WASP Fight for Militarization after the War -- 8. Recognizing the Gendered Warrior: History and Theory Intersect with the Fate of the WASPs -- 9. Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Revives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a LegacyDuring World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, however, was made up entirely of women who undertook dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men. Within military hierarchies, the World War II pilot was perceived as the most dashing and desirable of servicemen. "Flyboys" were the daring elite of the United States military. More than the WACs (Army), WAVES (Navy), SPARS (Coast Guard), or Women Marines, the WASPs directly challenged these assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. WASPs flew the fastest fighter planes and heaviest bombers; they test-piloted experimental models and worked in the development of weapons systems. Yet the WASPs were the only women's auxiliary within the armed services of World War II that was not militarized. In Clipped Wings, Molly Merryman draws upon military documents—many of which weren’t declassified until the 1990s—congressional records, and interviews with the women who served as WASPs during World War II to trace the history of the over one thousand pilots who served their country as the first women to fly military planes. She examines the social pressures that culminated in their disbandment in 1944—even though a wartime need for their services still existed—and documents their struggles and eventual success, in 1977, to gain military status and receive veterans’ benefits.In the preface to this reissued edition, Merryman reflects on the changes in women’s aviation in the past twenty years, as NASA’s new Artemis program promises to land the first female astronaut on the moon and African American and lesbian women are among the newest pilot recruits. Updating the story of the WASPs, Merryman reveals that even in the past few years there have been more battles for them to fight and more national recognition for them to receive. At its heart, the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots is not about war or planes; it is a story about persistence and extraordinary achievement. These accomplished women pilots did more than break the barriers of flight; they established a model for equality. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Women air pilots United States History. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Female. HISTORY / Military / World War II. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 English 9783110704730 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 9783110704525 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110722703 print 9781479805761 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479805792.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479805792 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479805792/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface to the NYU Classics Edition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Development of the Women Airforce Service Pilots: From Guarded Experiment to Valuable Support Role -- 3. Becoming Soldiers: Tracing WASP Expansion and Plans for Militarization -- 4. From Praise to Rancor: Media Opinion Changes as Men Return from Battle -- 5. No Allies for the WASPs: Congress Responds to Male Public Interest Groups -- 6. They’ll Be Home for Christmas: The WASP Program Disbands -- 7. On a Different Battlefield: The WASP Fight for Militarization after the War -- 8. Recognizing the Gendered Warrior: History and Theory Intersect with the Fate of the WASPs -- 9. Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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