title: SWEETWATER SILVER
author: Lewis, David
description: In 1942, 25,000 young women applied to join theWomen's AirForce
  Service Pilots (WASPs), but few were accepted.  They fought male
  hostility, poor equipment and official disdain to become pilots.  They
  piloted fighters and heavy bombers, but were specifically forbidden to
  fly overseas.
  Kansas farm girl SALLY HANSEN realizes her childhood dream to
  become an aviator and fly the Atlantic when, secretly,  she and her pilot husband ferry a Liberator bomber to Scotland.  But the airplane disappears and Sally's family, unaware of the flight, believes she cruelly abandoned her baby daughter and vanished.
  Sixty years later, granddaughter, SCARLETT MITCHELL, a single mom
  raising her daughter in a dying West Texas town, receives Sally's
  journal mailed anonymously from Scotland by someone who
  wants to clear his conscience before he dies.  She is determined to solve the mystery.