Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story
2010 · 33 min · Documentary
When the country needed every man, she answered the call.
“Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story,” follows one 93-year-old woman’s journey from the Black Hills of South Dakota where she learned to fly biplanes, to flying fighter planes for the Army Air Corps in 1943 & ’44. Vi was among these first women in United States history to fly military planes, and one of 114 who flew Pursuit Planes like the P51 and Thunderbolt!
- Director
- Mark C. Bonn
- Released
- April 1, 2010
- Language
- English
Cast
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