Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women

by Alison Hill

Pauline Gower MBE was the pioneering leader of the Spitfire women during the Second World War. Gaining her pilot's license at just 18, she set up the first female joyriding business in 1931 with engineer Dorothy Spicer and took 33,000 passengers up for a whirl, clocking up more than 2,000 hours. She went on to lead the inaugural women's section of the Air Transport Auxiliary and achieved equal pay for her women pilots. She enabled them to fly 'Anything...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075099682X
• ISBN13: 9780750996822
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"