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Epilogue B ron and Hannah Love Robinson’s first two children were boys: Brad MacLure and William Northrup Robinson. Then, on April 20, 1983, Nancy’s namesake, Hannah Lincoln Robinson was born. She is the seventh Hannah Lincoln in Nancy’s maternal line that begins with the wife of Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, the man who took Cornwallis’s sword at Yorktown. Bob Love lived to see all three of his grandchildren. Deborah G. Douglas sums up Nancy’s contribution: Love’s plan for the WAFS, both in conception and execution, remains an important model for the integration of women into the military. One important factor was that the WAFS program was never a matter of ego. It was absolutely critical to her that both men and women believed that members of either sex had something to contribute…. That she convinced others … of this idea represented her most profound and lasting legacy. The gender debate in the military has never been the same since. And that makes Nancy Love one of the more productive historical figures of the first half of the 20th century—a heroine with the “real stuff.”1 Nancy Love has received many posthumous honors, but the greatest tribute was her induction on July 16, 2005, into the Na274 Epilogue 275 tional Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF), located in the Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. Only the ninth woman so honored, she followed Amelia Earhart, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Jacqueline Cochran, Olive Ann Beech, Louise Thaden, Ruth Nichols, Harriet Quimby, and Patti Wagstaff. Nancy Love has taken her well-deserved place among aviation’s greats.2 ...

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