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Jacqueline Cochran Brings War Flight From America To England
Jacqueline Cochran ranks among aviation pioneers as she flies an American Lockheed Hudson bomber to a Royal Air Force field in England. Her mission combines proving a woman's piloting skill and studying how the British Air Transport Auxiliary ferries new planes to bases, to apply lessons back home.
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United States
Jacqueline Cochran
Britain
Royal Air Force
Atlantic
England
Miss Cochran
Floyd Odlum
Christopher Columbus
R.A.F
British Isles
British Air Transport Auxiliary
Air Transport Auxiliary
Amy Johnson Mollison
Thames Estuary
Amy Johnson
W.A.T.A
Gerard d’Erlanger
Carlise
Graf E. Carlise
China
Ocean
Columbus