American Experience
Season 11 Episode 10 - Fly Girls
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
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.
Episodes in Season 11
1
America 1900
55 min
2
Race for the Superbomb
55 min
3
Hoover Dam
55 min
4
Alone on the Ice
55 min
5
Rescue at Sea
55 min
6
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
55 min
7
Lost in the Grand Canyon
55 min
8
MacArthur (1): Destiny
55 min
9
MacArthur (2): The Politics of War
55 min
10
Fly Girls
55 min
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