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Subject: Re: In the Rose Parade... Shades of Nellie Fedewa... Author: Skip [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 07:40:18 01/07/14 Tue In reply to: Mike 's message, "In the Rose Parade... Shades of Nellie Fedewa..." on 02:08:09 01/04/14 Sat >Nellie is a former WASP ferry pilot and appears >in Hannegans Cove, chapters 4, 5, and 6... >She and her colleagues were honored in the >Pasadena Rose Parade on Jan 1. > >> >>Pioneering WWII Female Pilots Honored >> >> >href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/53960378" >>http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/53960378 > >Too bad that most of the WASPs aren't around >to see it. >One of them was a friend of my parents. She >and he husband (whom she met while ferrying >P51s) were flying a V-tail Beech Bonanza out >of El Monte airport in the Los Angeles area. > >She quit flying in the late 1970s when she >just barely didn't pass her medical. Her >husband quit at the same time and they >sold the Beech. They were a brave bunch of women and way ahead of their time. And they were treated badly by the military after the war. For those of you who don't know WASP is short for Women Aif Corps Service Pilots. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]