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Evelyn Sharp the Nebraskan pilot who touched the sky
Evelyn Sharp born October 1 1919 in Melrose Montana grew up in Ord Nebraska. From the mid 1930s she learned to fly with Jack Jefford and earned her pilot license in 1939. She became May 1938 first woman airmail pilot and later commanded a squadron in the Army Ferry Command flying A 20 bombers and P 38 fighters across the United States and Canada.
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