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Author Rickman, Sarah Byrn.

Title Nancy Batson Crews [electronic resource] : Alabama's first lady of flight / Sarah Byrn Rickman ; foreword by Jane Kirkpatrick.

Imprint Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xviii, 207 p. : ill.
Series Fire ant books
Fire ant books.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and indexes.
Contents Boys, I've brought you a real lemon -- Daughter of Alabama -- Flight! -- The WAFS -- The best of all jobs -- Women in pursuit -- The question of militarization -- The best and worst of times -- Beyond the war: life goes on -- The pain of change -- Gliding: better than sex! -- Paul and the WASP -- Passing the torch: Radford learns to fly -- California City -- Lake Country estates -- Enhancing the legacy -- Nancy and the planes she ferried -- The reunion -- From Cub to King Air -- Pneumonia, or something worse? -- Terminal -- Alabama Women's Hall of Fame -- Redemption -- Paul Jr.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Crews, Nancy Batson, 1920-2001.
United States. Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron -- Biography.
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- Biography.
Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female.
Birmingham (Ala.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780817355531 (pbk. alk. paper)
0817355537 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780817382933 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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