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Intrepid Woman - Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945

English · Hardback

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A college student in Maryland when World War II began, Betty Lussier went to England to help the British fight off an impending invasion. Armed with a private pilot's license, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and was soon ferrying planes and pilots for the RAF, and her memoir describes those days in thrilling detail. After the Normandy invasion, when women pilots were barred from delivering planes to the combat zones on the continent, she complained to Sir William S. Stephenson, who was in the RAF with her father in World War I and headed British intelligence in the States. He steered her to the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services, which was recruiting field agents. Her experiences with a special liaison unit in Algeria, Sicily, Italy, and France helping to set up a chain of double agents and transmit misinformation to the enemy are described in compelling detail as she takes the reader step-by-step through some memorable cases that helped bring the war to an end.


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Betty Lussier learned to fly in a civilian pilot training program at the University of Maryland. After the war, she set up income-generating projects for women in Africa and elsewhere. She lives in Pacific Palisades, CA.


Summary

A teenager on a Maryland farm when World War II began, Betty Lussier went to England to help the British fight off an impending invasion. Armed with a private pilot’s license, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and was soon ferrying planes and pilots for the RAF.

Product details

Authors Betty Lussier
Publisher Naval Institute Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.11.2010
 
EAN 9781591144496
ISBN 978-1-59114-449-6
No. of pages 240
Dimensions 162 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
Weight 476 g
Subjects Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel
Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration

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