For the remarkable aviators who would become the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, flying offered freedom, a community of like-minded peers, and a chance to contribute to the war effort-as well as an opportunity to show the world that women pilots were just as skilled and able as men. In The Women with Silver Wings, historian Katherine Sharp Landdeck takes us into their lives on the ground and in the air. The women ferried pursuits and bombers across the country and trained male pilots for service abroad, work that was exhilarating but dangerous: Thirty-eight WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic losses, the program seemed to be a resounding success-until, with the tides of war turning and fewer male pilots needed in Europe, Congress clipped the women's wings. The program was disbanded, the women sent home. But the bonds they'd forged never failed. and over the next few decades, they came together to fight for recognition as the military veterans they were-and for their place in history.