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Wasps: Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II

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I confess up front that I missed this book when it was originally published in 1994. I saw one copy at a public library years later and spent ages trying to run down a copy of my own. It was worth the time for the search!

The serious researcher or fan of the WASP will find little new in the text. Ms Williams dutifully records the stories told her by the WASP veterans in the '80s and '90s, and weaves them into a fairly standard narrative of the rise and fall of the program. All the familliar players among the WASP are here.

What sets this book apart is the collection of photos many are familliar, many are new, and a fair number of the wartime photos are in their original full color. The researcher, reenactor, and modeler will all find new stuff to rejoice in.

It's a shame that this volume seems to have only had one fairly short printing. Anyone looking for a good base to learn the story of these brave and motivated women serving America in wartime would do well to start here.

The WASP story is inspiring, and I got chills from looking at this awesome coffee-table book of photos, with accompanying text and stories. Unfortunately, the used copy I recently bought was actually defaced (with box-cutter slits across most of the back 1/3 of the book), but I'm so enthusiastic about the book I'm buying another copy.

This book is liberating to women everywhere! The reason I bought this intriguing book was that my Grandmother Didi Moorman is actually in the book! pgs., 17, 111, 113, 120, 151.