In 1942, twenty-three-year-old Nancy Jane Miller joined a group of
American women hand-picked by renowned aviatrix, Jacqueline
Cochran, to volunteer as pilots with the British Air Transport
Auxiliary (ATA). The ATA, which included men and women pilots from
many countries, had been formed to ferry military aircraft from
British factories to front-line operational squadrons and would
become Cochran's inspiration for the Women Airforce Service Pilots
(WASP), which served on American soil. This is Miller's account of
those years, written as a message to her father in the months
between her demobilization and her voyage home in 1945. It is a
description of her experiences flying 50 different kinds of
military aircraft in a country under siege-without instruments and
in all kinds of weather, armed only with minimal checkouts,
handling notes for the planes, and plenty of pluck. It is also an
American woman's view of British life during the war, the gradual
buildup to D-Day, and ultimate victory in Europe. It is a vivid
picture of what it meant to contribute to the war effort and, above
all, what it means to fly
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