Spitfire Women of World War II

The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest aeroplanes in World War II, mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Scores of women who weren't allowed to fly in combat nevertheless risked their lives to deliver planes for the Air Transport Auxiliary to the RAF bases from which male pilots flew into battle. A fitting complement to Patrick Bishop's "Fighter Boys". 'The breadth of Whittell's research leaps off the page' "Scotsman"