Jacqueline Cochran

Rhonda Smith-Daugherty is an associate professor of history and history department chairperson at Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky.

Table of Contents



Acknowledgments     

Introduction     



1. The Making of Jacqueline Cochran     

2. The Lady Is a Pilot     

3. America’s Number One Woman Flier     

4. An Unusual Life     

5. Women in War     

6. Jacqueline Cochran and the WASPs     

7. The WASP Experience     

8. The End of the WASPs     

9. High Flying     

10. Postscript     



Appendix One: Biographical Sketches

General Henry Harley Arnold, 1886–1950     

Vincent Hugo Bendix, 1882–1945     

Amelia Earhart, 1897–1937     

Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, 1905–1995     

Nancy Harkness Love, 1914–1976     

General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, 1880–1959     

Floyd Odlum, 1892–1976     

Alexander Nikolaivich Prokofieff de Seversky, 1894–1974     

Lieutenant General Barton Kyle Yount, 1884–1949     

Appendix Two: Major Aircraft Flown by Jacqueline Cochran     

Chapter Notes     

Bibliography     

Index