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Come Fly the World

The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

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Come Fly the World

Yazan: Julia Cooke
Seslendiren: Andi Arndt
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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 education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between five foot three and five foot nine, between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire.

Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl 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. Cooke brings to light 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 R&R, and then flown back to war. 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.©2021 Julia Cooke (P)2021 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Americas Engineering United States Women World Havacılık Savaş Çin Sosyal adalet
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So very interesting, I remember all these places & times so well, a fabulous job & way of life in those days,

Really enjoyed this book as I was a stewardess in the early 1970s

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This book was really good. I found it so interesting and in addition it was an education. The book takes you through the story of women who join Pan Am in the golden age of air travel. It talks about the perception of the women, but also the reality of how educated and intelligent they were. It also goes into details of the baby air lift and the role air travel companies played in the logistics of the Vietnam war. I found it so interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone that is a fan of the 60’s or even if you loved books like Daisy Jones and the six, this is non-fiction but would be a similar style of read.

Brilliant

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