WASP Awarded Congressional Gold Medal
...and Sarah was there!
Read about the experience by following these links:
Michigan History Magazine, a publication of The Historical Society of Michigan, will feature “Women with Wings: The WASP in Michigan” — the story of the WASP who flew for the 3rd Ferrying Group out of Romulus, Michigan, from January 1943 through December 1944. Sidebars on the WASP receiving the Congressional Gold Medal and on Houghton Michigan native Nancy Love — commander of the WASP of the Ferrying Division during WWII — accompany the article, which appears in the July/August issue due out in late July 2010. For information: www.hsmichigan.org
Little did I realize the impact my trip to Washington D.C. to see the WASP receive the Congressional Gold Medal — live — on March 10 would have on my life over the three months following. The upshot was, I received requests from several publications, both print and online, for articles about the event as well as photos of the event.
Warbird Digest, May/June 2010, carries my article “WASP Gold” on pages 21-25 with a sidebar “Nancy Love and Her WASP Ferry Pilots” on page 26. With vintage B&W WASP photos courtesy Texas Woman’s University as well as color photos I took in Washington accompany both articles. The article is NOT available online, but check out: www.warbirddigest.com for further information.
The weekly Okanogan Valley Gazette Tribune, Oroville, Washington, published my article on their hometown Gold Medal recipient Dorothy Scott — one of Nancy Love’s original WAFS. Sadly, Dorothy was one of 38 WASP to die in service in World War II. The Oroville airport — a customs entry point to and from British Columbia, Canada — is named for her — Dorothy Scott Airport. Dorothy’s father owned the land, built the airport back in the late 1920s, and deeded it to the town of Oroville in 1940.
I have been offering a PowerPoint slide show on the WASP Gold Medal featuring photos from March 9 and 10 taken by Air Force professional photographers as well as Friends of WASP and by yours truly. Those who have seen it are delighted with the presentation. I plan to repeat it throughout 2010.
Nancy Batson Crews: Alabama’s First Lady of Flight, published last fall by the University of Alabama Press, is selling well. PLEASE visit the Web page here devoted to Nancy’s biography and read the excerpt.
Sarah was the recipient of the 2009 Combs Gates Award, given by the National Aviation Hall of Fame. The award is for her work in telling the human side of aviation through her books about the WASP. As part of the award, Sarah will write one more piece of the WASP story — a book tentatively titled The WASP of the Ferry Command. It will tell the story of all 303 WASP who were assigned to ferry airplanes for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Sarah currently is doing research for that book. Read more about the Combs Gates Award here.
I SOLOED — Friday, November 13, 2009!
I’ve been flying a 1946 Aeronca Champ off a grass field at Stewart Aviation, Waynesville, Ohio — under the tutelage of Emerson Stewart III, grandson of the airport’s founder. Grounded by winter in Ohio, I’m ready to start my cross-country regimen as spring is finally here.
See photos and a video clip of one of my landings here! More to come!
Heart of a Military Woman, an anthology, was published in November 2009, and I have a piece included about two of the original WAFS — Nancy Batson Crews and Helen McGilvery. Read an excerpt and find a link to the anthology's Web page and order form here.
Magazines Feature Sarah’s Articles — WASP Gold Medal and Nancy Love
Michigan History Magazine, a publication of The Historical Society of Michigan, will feature “Women with Wings: The WASP in Michigan” — the story of the WASP who flew for the 3rd Ferrying Group out of Romulus, Michigan, from January 1943 through December 1944. Sidebars on the WASP receiving the Congressional Gold Medal and on Houghton Michigan native Nancy Love — commander of the WASP of the Ferrying Division during WWII — accompany the article, which appears in the July/August issue due out in late July 2010. For information: www.hsmichigan.org
Little did I realize the impact my trip to Washington D.C. to see the WASP receive the Congressional Gold Medal — live — on March 10 would have on my life over the three months following. The upshot was, I received requests from several publications, both print and online, for articles about the event as well as photos of the event.
Warbird Digest, May/June 2010, carries my article “WASP Gold” on pages 21-25 with a sidebar “Nancy Love and Her WASP Ferry Pilots” on page 26. With vintage B&W WASP photos courtesy Texas Woman’s University as well as color photos I took in Washington accompany both articles. The article is NOT available online, but check out: www.warbirddigest.com for further information.
The weekly Okanogan Valley Gazette Tribune, Oroville, Washington, published my article on their hometown Gold Medal recipient Dorothy Scott — one of Nancy Love’s original WAFS. Sadly, Dorothy was one of 38 WASP to die in service in World War II. The Oroville airport — a customs entry point to and from British Columbia, Canada — is named for her — Dorothy Scott Airport. Dorothy’s father owned the land, built the airport back in the late 1920s, and deeded it to the town of Oroville in 1940.
I have been offering a PowerPoint slide show on the WASP Gold Medal featuring photos from March 9 and 10 taken by Air Force professional photographers as well as Friends of WASP and by yours truly. Those who have seen it are delighted with the presentation. I plan to repeat it throughout 2010.
Sarah was the recipient of the 2009 Combs Gates Award, given by the National Aviation Hall of Fame. The award is for her work in telling the human side of aviation through her books about the WASP. As part of the award, Sarah will write one more piece of the WASP story — a book tentatively titled The WASP of the Ferry Command. It will tell the story of all 303 WASP who were assigned to ferry airplanes for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Sarah currently is doing research for that book. Read more about the Combs Gates Award here.
I SOLOED — Friday, November 13, 2009!
I’ve been flying a 1946 Aeronca Champ off a grass field at Stewart Aviation, Waynesville, Ohio — under the tutelage of Emerson Stewart III, grandson of the airport’s founder. Grounded by winter in Ohio, I’m ready to start my cross-country regimen as spring is finally here.
See photos and a video clip of one of my landings here! More to come!
Heart of a Military Woman, an anthology, was published in November 2009, and I have a piece included about two of the original WAFS — Nancy Batson Crews and Helen McGilvery. Read an excerpt and find a link to the anthology's Web page and order form here.