Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story (2010)

April 1, 2010Documentary0h 33m

When the country needed every man, she answered the call.

Overview

“Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story,” follows one 93-year-old woman’s journey from the Black Hills of South Dakota where she learned to fly biplanes, to flying fighter planes for the Army Air Corps in 1943 & ’44. Vi was among these first women in United States history to fly military planes, and one of 114 who flew Pursuit Planes like the P51 and Thunderbolt!

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