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March 11, 2004
A look at incredible women in history continues
with The Michael J. Colligan History Project
Lecture Series with speaker Sarah Byrn Rickman,
Tuesday, March 23. Rickman will highlight the
dramatic heroism of the WWII female aviators.
The free lecture begins at 7:30 pm in the Harry
T. Wilks Conference Center.
Author of The Originals: The Women’s
Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II,
Rickman said the story of the first 28 women
to fly for the U.S. Army in World War II “grabbed
me and demanded to be written.” She also
is the author of Flight From Fear, a fictional
book based on the story of the WASPs (Women
Air Force Service Pilots), who learned to fly
“the Army way” at Avenger Field
in Sweetwater, Texas, during WWII.
Rickman is a former reporter/columnist for
The Detroit News; served as managing
editor of the Centerville-Bellbrook Times
in suburban Dayton, Ohio, and is now a freelance
writer/editor and author.
Her field of expertise is the women who flew
for the Army in WWII and she has been researching
various aspects of this subject since 1996 with
more than two dozen personal one-on-one interviews.
Learn
more about the Michael J. Colligan History Project
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