Historical Mystery Features Unsung Heroines of WWII
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on: September 1, 2008, 5:46 am
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Release Author: Bast Press
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Release Summary: Bast Press announces the release of a World War
II mystery, ‘The Woman in the Wing’. The story features
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and Rosie the Riveters in
a fictional suspense thriller set in a wartime defense plant.
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Release Body: The December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor ended all
discussion as to whether the United States would enter World War
II. The result brought unexpected changes to America, especially
in the lives of women. Two hundred thousand enlisted in the military
and twelve million, many who had never worked outside of their
homes, took jobs in factories, offices, and as civilian workers
on military bases.
The
new supply of labor brought unprecedented increases in, among
other things, airplane and ship production. Eighty-five hundred
planes a month rolled out of factories, twice the number previously
manufactured in an entire year. Women factory workers collectively
referred to as ‘Rosie the Riveter’ built many of those
planes. An even lesser known fact, both then and today, is that
more than half of those aircraft arrived at their destination
ferried by civilian women of the Women Airforce Service Pilots,
the WASP.
In
‘The Woman in the Wing’, a suspense thriller, Charlotte
Mercer is a WASP trainee who hopes to fly for her country. Charlotte's
career nearly ends before it begins when an army major removes
her from training after she refuses his proposition to do something
other than fly. Ordered to work at a defense plant with the FBI,
she meets her new riveting partner, agent Eleanor Frazier. Char's
job description changes from pilot to Rosie the Riveter to undercover
agent after a ring of German spies. The dedicated pilot never
gives up hope of earning her silver wings, even as she makes a
perilous flight of her own with a Nazi demolitions expert holding
a gun to the back of her head.
‘The
Woman in the Wing’/ISBN: 978-0-9723541-6-5/268 pages/Trade
Paperback/$14.95
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