Select Bibliography for Women at War
The Night Witches:
A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II; Noggle, Anne; College Station, TX; Texas A&M University Press; 1994
About World War 2: Night Witches – All-Female Night Bomber Regiment; Hunt, David; at website owlcation.com; 2013
Night Witches: The Amazing Story of Russia’s Female Pilots in World War II; Myles, Bruce; Chicago; Chicago Review Press; 1990
Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II; Garber, Megan; The Atlantic magazine; 15 July 2013
The Little Known Story of the Night Witches, An All-Female Force in WWII; Grundhauser, Eric; Vanity Fair magazine; 25 June 2015
The Lethal Soviet “Night Witches” of the 588th Night Bomber Unit; Monahan, Maureen; mental_floss magazine; 26 July 2013
Unit Cohesion Among the Three Soviet Women’s Air Regiments During World War II; Bhuvasorakul, Jessica L.; Florida State University (Master’s Thesis); 2004
Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Women in WWII Combat; Pennington, Reina; University Press of Kansas; 2002
Women Airforce Service Pilots:
A Worthy Cause; Vaughan, Don; Military Officer magazine; May 2016
Congress OKs bill to allow female pilots’ ashes in Arlington; no author listed; at website www.foxnews.com; 13 March 2016
On Silver Wings: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II; Verges, Marianne; New York; Ballantine Books; 1991
Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines – The Unknown Heroines of World War II; Keil, Sally V.; Four Directions Press; 1979
WASPs – Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II; Williams, Vera S.; Motorbooks International; 1994
Women Pilots of World War II; Cole, Jean H.; University of Utah Press; 1992
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion:
Neither Rain, Nor Racial Bias; Thomas-Lester, Avis; Washington Post; 26 February 2009
One Woman’s Army – A Black Officer Remembers the WAC; Earley, Charity A.; College Station, TX; Texas A&M University Press; 1989
Sorting the Mail, Blazing a Trail: African-American Women in WWII; author not listed; Soldiers magazine; 21 March 2016
To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II; Moore, Brenda L.; New York; New York University Press; 1996
The Mail Must Go Through; Vaughan, Don; Military Officer magazine; February 2016
The United States Army in World War II: Special Studies: The Women’s Army Corps; Treadwell, Mattie E.; Washington, DC; Center of Military History; 1991