CONTENTS

Note on Names

Prologue: Lost Wings

1. It’s Awful Having a Stutter

2. Childhood Ups and Downs

3. Confidence Grows

4. Traveling Abroad

5. Finding Her Footing

6. Taking Flight

7 The WASPs Are Born

8. Welcome to the WASPs

9. Basic and Advanced Training

11. On Silver Wings

12. Flying for Her Country

14. Seized by the Sun

Acknowledgments

US Air Force List of Gertrude Tompkins Silver’s Personal Effects Recovered from Footlockers and Quarters

General Barton Younts Tribute to WASPs Killed in Service