Fowler Public Library

Discusses the birth, childhood, education, and achievements, and disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

"Dorothy Lucas yearned to discover all that she was capable of. After the devastating news of Pearl Harbor, her brothers joined the World War II war effort, but Dorothy wanted to do her part, too. So, she enlisted to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP). After hours of flight school and roaring engines, Dorothy and her fellow WASPs risked their lives towing targets in the air for the male fighter pilots in training. Through many mechanical...

"In 1999 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the famed aviator and author, moved from her home in Connecticut to the farm in Vermont where her daughter, Reeve, and Reeve's family live." "Mrs. Lindbergh was in her nineties and had been rendered nearly speechless years earlier by a series of small strokes that also left her frail and dependent on others for her care. No More Words is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh of the final seventeen months of her mother's life."--BOOK...

"Caroline Johnson is a F-18 Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) in the US Navy. During her deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bush, she flew missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. She was the first woman to fly in combat in Iraq since 2011 and was the first woman to drop bombs on ISIS." "A fresh, unique insider's view of what it's like to be a woman aviator in today's US Navy--from pedicures to parachutes. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation...

"Through transcribed correspondence, details the life of Dorothy Faeth Scott, a member of the WWII-era Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP); Scott died while in service to the US Army Air Forces"--

"'Circling the Sun' brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen. Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce...

"A biography of Mary Wilkins Ellis, a woman pilot who flew planes for Britain's Airport Transport Auxiliary during World War II and ran an airport on the Isle of Wight"--

"The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--

"Nancy Love was 16 when she earned her private pilot's license. Twelve years later, during World War II, she organized and led 300 women pilots for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, U.S. Army Air Forces. She was a trailblazing pilot as well as commander and a founder of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Nancy Love's vision, her leadership, and her service to country during World War II, forever changed women's role in aviation."...

"As the German Army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units, they will risk fiery death flying obsolete biplanes against the invader--but unlike the rest, these pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal skies above the Eastern front, they will become a legend--known to friend and foe alike as the Night Witches. With...