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2008-02-01 Britain

Honour for the Spitfires unsung flying heroines

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-02-01 09:47|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 ...How wonderful that these ladies may finally be recognized. Read Spitfire: The Biography by Johnathan Glancey for more detail, especially on a lady named Diana Barnato.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2008-02-01 12:33|| 2008-02-01 12:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Read her story here:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/history_old/dianabw.html

Posted by Aussie Mike 2008-02-01 17:19|| 2008-02-01 17:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Somebody remind me > is there a NATIONAL MONUMENT in Washington to AMER WOMEN AUXILIARY PILOTS, "ROSIES/SALLIES", US CIVIE MERCHANT MARINERS, PHILIPPINE SCOUTS, INDIAN CODETALKERS, etc "ALSO-THERE"???

Mickey D's AM coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-01 18:09|| 2008-02-01 18:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Joe, I don't know about the monument, but the word on women who served is getting out. One of the American Girls stories honors the WASP pilots that helped the Army Air Corps, and a remarkable book about the Army nurses in North Africa, Italy, and France is out: Evelyn Monahan's "And If I Perish." I don't know if the oral history people are working on getting the women support staff stories as well as the soldiers.

Check your library or Amazon listings for histories.

One more note: I think women flew the black painted Mosquitoes called "Moon Planes" for the Secret Service on some missions. I don't think the Moon Plane that flew Niels Bohr out was one of these, though.

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-02-01 18:20|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-02-01 18:20|| Front Page Top

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