"Katherine Stinson wants to carry letters up to Third Army". By the time Katherine Stinson (1891 - 1977, a.k.a. "the Flying Schoolgirl") had applied for the job of carrying the mails to the occupying American forces in post-war Germany, she already had the distinction of being the fourth American woman to earn a pilot's license and the first woman to ever deliver air-mail for the U.S. Post Office. She didn't get the job... Storming the Skies : The Story of Katherine & Marjorie Stinson , Pioneer Women Aviators
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