Ladies Courageous

Ladies Courageous also called Fury in the Sky in a 1950 Realart rerelease is a 1944 aviation film based on the novel Looking For Trouble 1941 by Virginia Spencer Cowles. Directed by John Rawlins, the films stars Loretta Young and Geraldine Fitzgerald. It tells the story of the paramilitary Womens Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron formed in the United States during World War II. Film historians and scholars consider Ladies Courageous an clef story of famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran and test pilot Nancy Harkness Loves work to mobilize women pilots to contribute to the war effort.

The WAFS soon have a real tragedy when one of their own dies in a crash. With the depression that sets in among the women, a topsecret mission to deliver aircraft to Easy Queen Island, a front line air base in the Pacific, appears to be the way to prove their worth to their army superiors. Roberta is mortified when publicityseeking Virgie crashes her aircraft on purpose and is washedout by her older sister. N Roberta accepts the blame for tolerating Virgies reckless behavior, and resigns from the WAFS. She then learns her husband Tommy Phillip Terry is missing in action. Virgie tries to make things right, but after stealing an aircraft to fly to army headquarters in Washington, crashes and nearly kills herself.Although the WAFS seems to be in disarray, a surprise announcement by Brigadier General Wade Samuel S. Hinds, a highranking Pentagon officer, changes everything. He informs Roberta, who has recently returned as their leader, that the unit is to be part of the military as the Women Airforce Service Pilots WASPS. The ferry mission to the Pacific has also been reinstated. As the squadron readies for their new mission, Roberta is reunited with her husband, who returned home safely. The squadron is finally able to take off and head to the Pacific to deliver muchneeded combat aircraft, including the latest fighter and bomber aircraft from American factories. ........

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