Examines the life of female World War II pilot Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins, the only one of thirty-eight confirmed or presumed dead "WASPs," female pilots serving to transport planes across the country so they could be shipped out to either the Pacific or European theaters of the war, whose body is still unfound. Tracks Gertrude's life from her early struggles with a stutter and the social shame that came with it, her marriage to a pilot that ended with his death in Holland, her decision to become a pilot, and her last-known location.
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call number/section: 920
subjects: silver, gertrude tompkins, 1911-1944, women airforce service pilots (u.s.), biography, world war, 1939-1945, women, aerial operations, united states, air pilots, biography, women air pilots, women