Rmy creates the WASP the Women Airforce Service Pilots and Ida suddenly sees a way to fly as well as do something significant to help her brother stationed in the Pacific But even the WASP won't accept her as a black woman forcing Ida Mae to make a diffic.
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eBook Sherri L. Smith Ô Flygirl ePUB Ê Ô flygirl download, Flygirl PDFFirst sentence It's Sunday afternoon and the phonograph player is jumping like a clown in a parade the way Jolene and I are dancing Ida Mae Jones just wants to fly Ever since her father taught her in his crop duster she has never felt at home than in the cockpit of a plane Now there is a war on and Ida Mae wants to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots WASP to help with the war effort The only roadblock is that the WASP does not accept African American girls Ida Mae faces the difficult choice of passing as white or giving up her dream of flying I haven't read a lot of books about World War II and knew next to nothing about the WASP before reading this book This book was a great well researched introduction to this part of the war The WASP ferried planes across the country so they could be delivered overseas hauled targets for artillery practice and tested planes before the male pilots flew them They faced many dangers an
eBook Sherri L. Smith Ô Flygirl ePUB Ê Ô flygirl download, Flygirl PDFIda Mae is an African American who's light skinned enough to pass as white Although most other African Americans would be rejected from serving she uses her light skin to join the WASPWomen Airforce Service Pilots and begin she hopes to serve her fighting brother and country Underlying the historical aspects were beautiful dynamics of flying in the stead of her late father finding identity and her desire to stay pretty and feminine rather than be one of the boys The biggest thing that got me was her use of deceit She pretends she's a licensed pilot when she's not and pretends she can swim when she can't Of course she was as knowledgable as a licensed pilot and she learns to swim after lying but it's just one of those pet peeves I can't repress While the