Spitfire Women of World War Ii (2007)
“They knew they were ‘lucky’. They knew that thousands of girls would have given everything they had for the mere chance of pilot training. But they had also assumed from the outset that since they could fly, and since there was to be a war, they would, somehow, be wartime pilots.They weren’t particularly interested in the battles that Pauline Gower and Jackie Cochran had to fight to get them into their ‘lovely warplanes’. They knew, if they stopped to think about it, that they were operating at... the very limit of what society could tolerate, even in war. But they weren’t much interested in society either, or in stopping and thinking about their place in it, and they were so used to being unusual that anything else would have been unsettling, unsatisfying – and soul-destroyingly dull.Maureen Dunlop was one of these women, hotfoot from Argentina because a war’s ‘not something you hang about over’. Ann Welch was another. (‘I had to be involved: and it had to be in flying.MoreLess
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