Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II

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Endnotes Preface 1. Leon Edel, “The Figure Under the Carpet,” in Telling Lives: The Biographer ’s Art, edited by Marc Pachter (Washington D.C.: New Republic Books, 1979), 24–25. 2. Catherine Drinker Bowen, Adventures of a Biographer (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959), 47. Learning to Fly 1. http://history.cityofhoughton.com/ 2. Information on Nancy Harkness (Love) and her family is from personal interviews by the author with her three daughters: Hannah Love Robinson , Margaret Campbell (Marky) Love and Alice Harkness (Allie) Love, June 2000, June 2002, and June 2003. 3. “A Penny a Pound, Up You Go Was Bug That Bit Nancy H. Love,” The Stephens Life (Stephens College, Columbia Missouri), April 26, 1946.; clipping found in the Nancy Harkness Love (NHL) private collection held by her daughters Margaret and Alice Love. Hereafter known as NHL collection . Complete copies also are in the author’s possession. Partial copies are held by the International Women’s Air and Space Museum (IWASM) in Cleveland, Ohio. 4. Interviews with Marky Love. 5. The Nancy Harkness quotations and written passages telling of her earliest flights are taken from: a questionnaire that she answered in 1935; a letter she wrote to H. A. Bruno & Associates (public relations) in December 1937; an article she wrote in 1955 for the public relations department of Beechcraft that was subsequently printed in The Beechcrafter magazine in October 1955; and assorted newspapers and magazine articles describing her early flight experiences. All are found in the NHL collection. 279 280 Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II 6. N. H. Love’s logbooks and the newspaper article (no name or date), all found in the NHL collection. 7. Letter, NHL collection. 8. 1935 questionnaire in NHL collection. 9. Stories of Nancy Harkness at Milton are from interviews with Allie Love. 10. Crocker Snow, Logbook: A Pilot’s Life (Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, A Roger Warner Book, 1997), 77. 11. Milton stories, Allie Love. 12. “Society Girl Lands Safely As Plane Fails,” unidentified newspaper, approximate date, April 17, 1931, clipping found in NHL collection. 13. Nancy’s school records, Milton Academy, academic year 1930–1931 found in NHL collection. 14. “Miller Is Hurt in Plane Crash: Vassar Student Learning to Fly, Uninjured ,” unidentified Poughkeepsie, New York, newspaper, April 5, 1932, found in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Archives, Texas Woman’s University (TWU) Library, Denton, Texas. Hereafter, TWU. 15. Letters from Nancy Love to Jack Ray dated October 16, 1971, and March 14, 1974, TWU. 16. “Flying Freshman of Vassar College Obtains Limited Commercial License ,” news article from unidentified newspaper, April 26, 1932, clipping found in NHL collection. 17. Clipping pasted into a scrapbook, Sportsman Pilot Magazine, 1932, found in NHL collection. 18. N. H. Love’s logbooks in NHL collection. 19. “No Time for Parties, They’d Rather Fly,” Detroit Times photo and caption, circa February 1933 (date not shown), clipping found in NHL collection. 20. “More Vassar Girls Flying: Several Follow Lead Set by Nancy Harkness,” unidentified newspaper, no date, clipping found in NHL collection. 21. Nancy Harkness Love’s Ninety-Nines application dated January 3, 1934, NHL collection. Learning to Live 1. Letter, undated, but thought to be early 1934, from Nancy to her uncle Thomas Chadbourne, NHL collection. 2. Margaret Thomas Warren, Taking Off (Worcestershire, England: Images Publishing, Malvern Ltd., 1993), 160–65. 3. Margaret Thomas Warren, “The Early Years,” Ninety-Nine News, March 2002. From the files of Dr. Jacque Boyd, aviation historian. 4. Warren, Taking Off, 166–67. 5. Allie and Marky Love interviews. 6. Snow, Logbook, 77. 7. “Passengers Find Flier Is Hub Deb,” unidentified Boston newspaper, April 28, 1934, clipping in NHL collection. 8. Robert C. Codman, “Woman Flier Given Praise … To Demonstrate Waco Line,” N.E. Aviation, May 1934, clipping found in NHL collection. Endnotes 281 9. N. H. Love logbooks, NHL collection. 10. Warren, “The Early Years.” 11. N. H. Love and Robert M. Love’s (RML) logbooks. Both Nancy’s and Bob’s logbooks are in private collections in possession of their daughters. 12. Newspaper article, Houghton, Michigan, September 10, 1934, clipping found in NHL collection. 13. N. H. Love and R. M. Love logbooks in NHL and RML collections. 14. Information on Robert MacLure Love and his family is from personal interviews by the author with his three daughters. 15. John Haviland Love, unpublished memoir, in possession of his...