"The Fly Girls Revolt" - Eileen A. Bjorkman [Roosevelt Reading Festival 2023]

"The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat" - Eileen A. Bjorkman [Roosevelt Reading Festival 2023]

00:00 – Introduction
02:49 – Reads Chapter: “We Need Women, We Don’t Need Women”
07:25 – Cochran’s lunch with FDR in Hyde Park
09:58 – Cochran meets with General Hap Arnold
11:02 – Rep Edith Rogers and bringing women into the military
16:31 – Military women face smear campaigns
19:46 – Army Air Force creates Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
21:40 – WASP trains 1000 women to ferry aircraft
23:33 – 1948 legislation allows women full-time military presence.
24:50 – In 1973, women finally train as military pilots
27:13 – In 1993, women finally allowed to fly in combat
28:10 – Q&A