All the brave promises
Subtitle: memories of Aircraft Woman 2nd Class 2146391
By: by Mary Lee Settle.
Edition: 1st University of South Carolina Press ed.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Settle, Mary Lee.; Great Britain. Women's Auxiliary Air Force -- Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Description: Mary Lee Settle volunteered for service in the women's auxiliary arm of the Royal Air Force in 1942. She was a lone young American in a barracks full of British women. All the Brave Promises is her recollection and evocation of those war years.

From her ignominious treatment at the hands of rowdy barracks mates to her friendship with young RAF pilots and her tracking of Allied planes through night fog and blackout, Settle successfully re-creates the heightened sense of danger that pervaded wartime Britain, the immobilizing fear she dealt with on a daily basis, the heady enthusiasm that sometimes broke the tense atmosphere, and the unbridgeable gulf that divided officers from the enlisted ranks.

With a mixture of passionate honesty and earthy humor, this masterful, award-winning writer crafts a memoir that is as much a tribute to the generation that fought World War II as a moving account of one woman's extraordinary wartime experience.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Delacorte, 1966.