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Forgotten wartime heroes in fiction
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W.A.S.P, a U.S. military program designed for women to participate in the war effort where they perform different tasks one of which included training future male pilots, is one of the many amazing projects that women participated in during WWII that has been covered up. When Noelle Salazar uncovered these testimonies of silent bravery, she couldn't stop sharing them. She began work on her first book, "The Flight Girls," a historical fiction novel for mature audiences which is now a USA Today bestseller, a Publishers Weekly bestseller, and a Woman's World best new book. In it, she based her main character, Audrey Coltrane, on the real-life warriors she interviewed. Listen in as we discuss the actual people that Noelle Salazar based her extraordinary characters on!Don't forget to rate the podcast with a few sentences on Apple Podcasts to enter our Amazon gift card raffle! If we reach 50 reviews by the end of this year (2020), we will give one random person a gift card. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more details!
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Noelle Salazar is the new and upcoming author of The Flight Girls , a historical fiction novel written for mature audiences. Mrs. Salazar discovered some untold, heroic stories about some courageous women who were apart of WWII.The female pilots, members of a program called W.A.S.P, did more than she had ever imagined, from training male pilots to flying planes all over the country while always risking their lives for our nation. She decided that the stories could not go untold any longer and that the women who were apart of them deserved to get recognition. Her book, The Flight Girls , turned out to be a USA Today bestseller, a Publishers Weekly bestseller, and a Woman's World best new book. Noelle Salazar crafted an inspiring and thrilling book for mature audiences that showed some of the long-forgotten history surrounding one of our world’s largest tragedies.
For more about Noelle Salazar: noellesalazar.com/about
The Flight Girls: amazon.com
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