![]() The training is difficult, yet Ida makes it to her first test, which will allow her to move from basic training to intermediate training. Ida is accepted to the program and invited to Sweetwater, Texas, to begin her training.Īt Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, Ida quickly becomes friends with two other women, Lily and Patsy. Although the plan makes her nervous, Ida finally decides to forge her father’s pilot’s license, so it looks like her own, and apply to the program, passing as white. Jolene tells Ida that she could try to pass as white since she has fairer skin than everyone else in her family. Ida is excited, but soon realizes that the program will only accept white women. One day, Ida’s younger brother, Abel, finds a newspaper clipping calling for women pilots to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, a new army initiative. Ida and her family have been rationing food and collecting silk stockings to donate to the war efforts, but Ida feels as though she is not doing enough. The novel then jumps forward to August 1943, at which point Thomas has been gone for more than a year and a half. Before he leaves, Thomas makes Ida promise to stay at home and take care of the family while he is overseas. ![]() Ida’s older brother,Thomas, who was pursuing his medical degree in Tennessee, decides to enlist in the army. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Ida and Jolene leave work one night, they learn that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and the United States is entering World War II. ![]()
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