American Experience Season 11 Episode 10 Fly Girls 1998
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During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutantes who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air. Thirty-eight women died in service. But the opportunity to play a critical role in the war effort was abruptly canceled by politics and resentment, and it would be 30 years before women would again break the sex barrier in the skies.
- Released: 1999-05-24
- Runtime: 55 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars:
- Director: Cameo George
