ASIN: B002FB637Q
Publisher: ; 1st edition (June 27, 2009)
Pages: 441
In 1940s America, Jacqueline Cochran was the rarest kind of woman: she was a self-made millionaire pilot who, since the disappearance of her friend Amelia Earhart, had become the nation’s most famous darling of the air. But she was no darling. At the outbreak of World War II, Cochran used her considerable celebrity and wealth to launch a fight of her own against the US Army. The notion might have seemed absurd, but she aimed to command a group of women pilots within the Army Air Corps.Cochran was feminine and scrappy, but she was not the only woman pilot with ambition. Vassar-educated, socially connected Nancy Love also wanted women flying military planes, but she had a different idea of how they should be used. Goodbye Glamour Gals is a novel of extraordinary women in an extraordinary time.A cold rivalry developed as Cochran and Love struggled to convince the Army that women were a ...
