To Touch the Stars
- ISBN-10
- 0809205890
- ISBN-13
- 9780809205899
- Series
- To Touch the Stars
- Category
- Air pilots, Military
- Pages
- 126
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-02
- Publisher
- Ntc Publishing Group
- Author
- Karen Zeinert
Description
In 1943, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Erickson finds a way to support the war effort and realize her dream of becoming a pilot when she joins the Army's Women's Flying Training Detachment--later known as the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs).
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