Cornelia Fort

**Cornelia Clark Fort** (5 ga Fabrairu, 1919 - 21 ga Maris, 1943) wata matukin jirgin sama ce 'yar Amurka wadda ta shahara da kasancewa cikin wasu abubuwa biyu da suka shafi jirgin sama. Na farko ya faru ne yayin da take gudanar da jirgin sama na horar da fararen hula a Pearl Harbor a ranar 7 ga Disamba, 1941, lokacin da ita ce matukin jirgin Amurka na farko da ya haɗu da rundunar jiragen saman Japan a lokacin harin Pearl Harbor . Ita da ɗalibar ta sun tsira da ƙura daga karo a tsakiyar iska da jirgin saman Japan da kuma harin da aka kai musu bayan sun yi saukar gaggawa. 

A shekara mai zuwa, Fort ta zama memba ta biyu a cikin abin da za a zama Matan Jiragen Sama na Sojan Sama ko WASP. Fort tana aiki a matsayin matukin jirgin ruwa na WASP a ranar 21 ga Maris 1943 lokacin da ta zama mace ta farko da ta mutu a tarihin Amurka yayin da take aiki. Ta shiga cikin wani hatsarin jirgin sama na tsakiyar sama kuma ta yi hatsari mil goma kudu da Merkel, Texas, a Mulberry Canyon.  

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Fort a ranar 5 ga Fabrairu, 1919, a matsayin ɗa na huɗu ga wani iyali mai arziki da shahara a Nashville, Tennessee ; mahaifinta, Rufus Elijah Fort, ya kafa Kamfanin Inshorar Rayuwa da Haɗari na Ƙasa .  Ta sami takardar shaidar makarantar sakandare daga Makarantar Ward-Belmont a 1936.  Ta kammala karatunta daga Kwalejin Sarah Lawrence a 1939.  Bayan kammala karatu, Fort ta shiga Ƙungiyar Matasa ta Nashville .

Ta nuna sha'awar tukin jirgin sama tun farko, musamman bayan da mahaifinta ya sa 'yan uwanta uku suka yi alƙawarin cewa ba za ta taɓa tukin jirgin sama ba. Ba tare da tunanin sa Cornelia ta yi rantsuwa makamancin haka ba, daga ƙarshe ta sami horo don samun lasisin tukin jirgin sama a Nashville. [1] Ita ce mace ta biyu a Tennessee da ta sami lasisin tukin jirgin sama kuma mace ta farko a Tennessee da ta sami lasisin tukin jirgin sama kuma a bikin ta tashi mil 2,000 a cikin kwana ɗaya tana yawo daga gida zuwa St.Louis da kuma kudu zuwa Mississippi Delta. [2] Ta nemi shiga makarantun tukin jirgin sama da yawa kuma an karɓe ta a matsayin malami a wata makarantar horar da tukin jirgin sama ta Colorado . Yayin da take Colorado, an ba ta aiki a Hawaii daga Andrew Flying Service da ke John Rodgers Field, wanda ta karɓa. [3]

## Aikin tukin jirgin sama

### Harin Pearl Harbor

A lokacin da take aiki a matsayin mai koyar da matukan jirgin sama na farar hula a Pearl Harbor, Cornelia Fort ba da gangan ba ta zama ɗaya daga cikin shaidu na farko game da harin Japan a Pearl Harbor wanda ya kawo Amurka cikin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu . A ranar 7 ga Disamba, 1941, Fort ta tashi da sanyin safiyar John Rodgers Field tana koyar da tashi da sauka ga wani matukin jirgin sama na ɗalibi a cikin jirgin sama na Interstate Cadet . Jirginta da wasu jiragen sama na farar hula kaɗan ne kawai jiragen Amurka da ke sama kusa da tashar jiragen ruwa a wancan lokacin. Fort ta ga wani jirgin sama na soja yana tashi kai tsaye zuwa gare ta kuma ta kama na'urorin sarrafawa daga ɗalibar ta don ta tashi sama da jirgin da ke tafe. Jirgin ya wuce kusa sosai har ya girgiza tagogi na jirginta mai horarwa.  A lokacin ne ta ga alamar rana da ke fitowa a kan fikafikai. Cikin ɗan lokaci kaɗan, ta ga hayaƙi baƙi yana fitowa daga Pearl Harbor kuma jiragen bama-bamai suna shawagi. Ta yi ƙoƙarin shawo kan kanta cewa wani irin atisayen soja ne, amma a cikin kalmominta, "Wani abu ya rabu da jirgin sama ya yi walƙiya. Idanuna sun biyo baya, ƙasa, har ma da ilimi yana bugawa a zuciyata, zuciyata ta juya da ƙarfi lokacin da bam ɗin ya fashe a tsakiyar tashar jiragen ruwa."  Ta sauke jirgin da sauri a filin jirgin saman farar hula na John Rodgers kusa da bakin Pearl Harbor. Zero mai bin diddigin jirgin ya ratsa jirginta da titin jirgin yayin da ita da ɗalibarta ke gudu don neman mafaka.   Babu wanda ke ƙasa ya yarda da labarinta mai ban tsoro har sai da wani makaniki ya zo ya ce an harbi Robert Tyce, manajan KT Flying Service a filin jirgin sama, a kai kuma an kashe shi. Wasu jiragen farar hula biyu ba su dawo da safiyar yau ba.   "Bai taɓa biyana kuɗin wannan horo na rabin sa'a ba," in ji Cornelia. 

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