Nancy Harkness Love

**Nancy Harkness Love** (14 ga Fabrairu, 1914 - 22 ga Oktoba, 1976), an haife ta Hannah Lincoln Harkness, matukin jirgi ne kuma kwamanda a jirgin sama na Amurka a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu . Ta sami lasisin matukin jirgi yana da shekaru 16. Ta yi aiki a matsayin matukin jirgi mai gwaji da kuma mai tseren jirgin sama a shekarun 1930. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu ta shawo kan Kanar William H. Tunner na Rundunar Sojojin Sama ta Amurka da ya nemi kafa ƙungiyar matukan jirgi mata don jigilar jiragen sama daga masana'antu zuwa sansanonin jiragen sama. Daga ƙarshe an amince da wannan shawara a matsayin Rundunar Jiragen Ruwa ta Mata . Love ta jagoranci wannan rukunin kuma daga baya duk ayyukan jigilar jiragen ruwa a cikin sabbin matukan jirgin ruwa na Mata na Rundunar Sojojin Sama . An ba ta lambar yabo ta Air Medal saboda aikinta a lokacin yaƙin kuma an naɗa ta Laftanar Kanar a Rundunar Sojojin Sama ta Amurka a 1948.

## Rayuwar farko
An haife ta a Houghton, Michigan a ranar 14 ga Fabrairu, 1914, a matsayin 'yar wani likita mai arziki, Harkness ta fara sha'awar harkokin sufurin jiragen sama tun tana ƙarama. Tana da shekaru 16, ta yi jirgin farko kuma ta sami lasisin tukin jirgin sama cikin wata guda.  Duk da cewa ta je makarantu masu daraja, ciki har da Milton Academy da ke Massachusetts da Vassar a New York, ba ta da natsuwa da kuma sha'awar kasada. A shekarar 1932, a ƙarshen shekararta ta farko, wacce aka yi wa lakabi da "The Flying Freshman!", ta sami lasisin kasuwanci kuma ta sami kulawar ƙasa.  A Vassar, ta sami ƙarin kuɗi tana ɗaukar ɗalibai don hawa jirgin sama da ta yi haya daga filin jirgin sama da ke kusa. 

### Kafin yaƙi
A shekarar 1936, Harkness ta auri Robert M. Love, wani babban jami'in Air Corps Reserve. Sun gina nasu kamfanin jiragen sama mai nasara da ke Boston, Inter City Aviation, wanda Nancy matukin jirgi ne. Ta kuma yi tafiya zuwa Ofishin Kasuwancin Jiragen Sama . Love ta shiga tseren jiragen sama a 1936 da 1937, inda ta fafata a Gasar Jiragen Sama ta Ƙasa a Los Angeles da Detroit. Bayan ta zo ta biyu a tseren Detroit, ta daina fafatawa.  A 1937 da 1938, Love ta yi aiki a matsayin matukin jirgi mai gwaji, tare da shahararren mai tseren jiragen sama Frank Hawks, na Kamfanin Gwinn Air Car, suna yin gwaje-gwaje kan gyare-gyare da sabbin abubuwa na jiragen sama. A wani aiki, ta yi aiki a matsayin matukin jirgi mai gwaji a kan sabbin kayan saukar da kekuna masu ƙafa uku, wanda daga baya ya zama misali a yawancin jiragen sama. A wani aikin, ta taimaka wajen sanya sunayen hasumiyoyin ruwa a cikin garuruwa a matsayin taimakon kewayawa ga matukan jirgi. 

A watan Mayu na shekarar 1940, bayan yakin duniya na biyu ya barke a Turai, Love ta rubuta wa Laftanar Kanar Robert Olds, wanda a lokacin yake aiki a Sashen Tsare-tsare na Hedikwatar Rundunar Sojojin Sama ta Amurka, wanda shekara guda bayan haka zai jagoranci kafa Rundunar Jiragen Ruwa ta Rundunar Sojojin Sama, cewa ta sami matukan jirgi mata 49 masu kyau. Wannan rukunin da ake kira "na asali" kowannensu yana da sa'o'i sama da 1,000 na tashi. Ta ba da shawarar cewa matan za su iya taimakawa jigilar jiragen sama daga masana'antu zuwa sansanoninsu. Tsofaffi sun gabatar da wani shiri na haɗa matukan jirgi mata farar hula a cikin Rundunar Jiragen Ruwa ga Janar Hap Arnold, kwamandan rundunar sojojin sama ta Amurka, wanda ya ƙi amincewa da hakan bayan da Jacqueline Cochran ta cire alƙawari daga gare shi na kada ta yi aiki kan duk wani shawara game da matukan jirgi mata waɗanda ba su zama jami'an da mata ke jagoranta ba. 

## Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu

A farkon shekarar 1942, an kira mijinta Robert Love zuwa aiki mai mahimmanci a Ginin Munitions, Washington, DC a matsayin mataimakin shugaban ma'aikata na Rundunar Jiragen Ruwa. Love ta raka shi zuwa Washington kuma a ranar 11 ga Maris, ta ɗauki aikin farar hula a Baltimore, Maryland tare da Ofishin Ayyuka na Rundunar Jiragen Ruwa ta Sashen Arewa maso Gabas (ba da daɗewa ba aka sake masa suna zuwa 2nd Ferrying Group), Sashen Cikin Gida. Sashen Cikin Gida, wanda Kanar William H. Tunner ke jagoranta, an naɗa shi Sashen Jiragen Ruwa, Hukumar Sufuri ta Sama (ATC) watanni kaɗan bayan haka. 

Love ta tuka jirginta na kanta a tafiyarta ta yau da kullun daga gidan ma'auratan da ke Washington, DC. Ofisoshin Major Love da Col. Tunner suna kusa da juna, kuma a lokacin tattaunawa tsakaninsu, ƙwarewarta ta tuƙi ta ja hankalin Tunner, wanda ke neman ƙwararrun matukan jirgi don jigilar jiragen sama daga masana'antu zuwa gonaki. Major Love ta ba da shawarar Tunner ya yi magana da matarsa kai tsaye. [1]

## Manazarta