Book Genre: Adult, Biography, Biography Memoir, Feminism, Historical, History, Nonfiction, Travel, Womens.Full Book Name: Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am.

Finally, with Operation Babylift-the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon-the book’s special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage.Ĭome Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke – eBook Detailsīefore you start Complete Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am PDF EPUB by Julia Cooke Download, you can read below technical ebook details: Cooke brings to life the story of Pan Am stewardesses’ role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields, who were off for five days of RandR, and then flown back to war. Julia Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up Required to have a college degree, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 19 also had to be between 5′3″ and 5′9″, between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire. You can read this before Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am written by Julia Cooke which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke

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