When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air, having escaped Nashville's debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She became one of 1100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army's rigorous selection process and earn her silver wings with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Although they did not serve in combat roles, they proved that women aviators were just as skilled as men; as Katherine Sharp Landdeck recounts here, though, they have had to fight for their place in history.