![]() ![]() ![]() Benjamin the sweet innocent is Mary Lynn Palmer, married to overseas pilot Beau the all-rounder is ""Cappy"" Hayward, army brat and only child of the Army's Major Hayward and of course there's Rachel Goldman, a silent but tough, cookie from the Lower East Side. ![]() The Boy-from-Brooklyn type here is ragged-but-right Marry Rogers from Detroit the upper cruster is Eden van Valkenburgh, who makes the mink-to-Government-Issue adjustment à la Pvt. And, following the male WW II-movie format, Dailey tracks the fortunes of a cinematically assorted crew of servicewomen. Dailey leaves the wagon wheels of the Calder series to take to the air in this aviation novel: a comrade-in-arms tribute to the band of civilian female pilots who for a too-brief period (1942-43) performed valiantly for the military as WASPs (Women's Airforce Service Pilots), under the leadership of cosmetics-queen Jacqueline Cochran and USAF chief General ""Hap"" Arnold. ![]()
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