Schrader, Helena

During World War II, a few, carefully selected women in the US and the UK were briefly given the unprecedented opportunity to fly military aircraft. Yet the story of these pioneer women pilots is made even more intriguing by the fact that, despite many notable similarities in the utilization and organization of the women in their respective countries, they experienced radically different fates.

Describes the humanitarian efforts to provide Berlin with food and fuel supplies after the Soviet Union closed off all land and water access to Berlin in 1948.