Female Few

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Through the darkest days of the Second World War an elite group of courageous gifted women risked their lives as courier pilots flying Lancaster Bombers Spitfires & many other aircraft in hundreds of perilous missions across the country. The role of these women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary was to deliver the planes to the male RAF pilots who would take them into battle dangerous work which the women carried out unarmed without radios. Fifteen would lose their lives. In The Female Few five of these astonishingly brave women tell their stories for the first time awe inspiring tales of incredible risk tenacity & sacrifice. Their spirit & fearlessness in the face of death still resonates down the years & their accounts reveal a forgotten chapter in the history of the Second World War. As Yvonne Macdonald now 90 & living in Cape Cod says: It was a kind of freedom you never get any other way it was as if you had wings sewn on your back. A lot of people here in Cape Cod dont even know I was in World War Two. Or what I did. They do now.