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Became the director of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) in July 1943. Set many airplane speed records and became the first woman to break the sound barrier in 1953.
March 1998
Prepared by Diana Simpson
Bibliographer, Air University Library
Maxwell AFB, AL
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Please note: A call number beginning with "R" denotes a reference book:
The Army Air Forces in World War II. Volume
7: Services Around the World, edited
by Wesley F. Craven and James L. Cate. Chicago, University of
Chicago Press, 1958. 666 p.
See index for appropriate page references. A copy of this book
is also located in Reference.
Book call no.: 940.544973 A741 v.7
Cadogan, Mary. Women with Wings: Female
Flyers in Fact and Fiction. Chicago, Academy Chicago, 1993.
278 p.
See especially, pp 204210.
Book call no.: 629.130082 C125w
Cochran, Jacqueline. Jackie Cochran: An
Autobiography. New York, Bantam, 1987. 358 p.
Book call no.: 92 C663j
Cochran, Jacqueline with Floyd Odlum. The
Stars at Noon. New York, Arno Press, 1954. 274p p.
Book call no.: 92 C663s
Current Biography Yearbook, 1963, edited
by Charles Moritz. NewYork, H.W. Wilson, 1964. 502 p.
Cochran, Jacqueline, pp 7780.
Book call no.: R 920.02 C976 1963
Dupre, Flint O. (Col). U.S. Air Force Biographical
Dictionary. New York, Franklin Watts, 1965. 273 p.
Cochran, Jacqueline, pp 4243.
Book call no.: R 923.573 D942u
Keil, Sally Van Wagenen. Those Wonderful
Women in Their Flving Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World
War II. New York, Rawson, Wade, 1979. 334 p.
Book call no.: 940.544973 K27t
Lomax, Judy. Women of the Air. New York, Dodd Mead
& Company, 1987. 216 p.
Book call no.: 926.2913 L839w
Moolman, Valerie and the editors of TimeLife
Books. Women Aloft. Alexandria, VA, TimeLife Books,
1981. 176 p. (The Epic of Flight)
Book call no.: 629.13088042 M817w
National Aviation Hall of Fame (U.S.). Enshrinee
Album: "The First TwentyOne Years", by James
W. Jacobs. 1st ed. Dayton, OH, National Aviation Hall of Fame,
1984. 230 p.
Cochran, pp 4041, includes portrait.
Book call no.: R 926.2913 N277e
Scharr, Adela R. Sisters in the SkY. Gerald,
MO, Patrice Press, 1986. 2 vols.
Vol.1: The WAFS; Vol.2: The WASP.
Book call no.: 940.544973 S311s
Webster's American Military Biographies.
Springfield, MA, G & C Merriam, 1978. 548 p.
Cochran, Jacqueline, p 76.
Book call no.: R 923.5 W385
Barton, Charles (Capt). Jackie (Cochran) & the Bendix. Air Classics 21:2427 May '85.
Baxter, Gordon. Cochran. Flying 101:178 Sep '77.
Bollow, John. Remembering the WASPs. Saturday Evening Post 267: 58-59+ May-Jun '95
Cochran, Jacqueline. World's Record in a Jet.
Atlantic Monthly 194:3742 Oct '54.
Excerpt from Stars at Noon.
Cochran, Jacqueline. World's Record in a Jet.
Science Digest 371:5355 Apr '55.
Condensed from a chapter of the book, The Stars at Noon.
Jacqueline Cochran, Pilot, Dies; Set Over 200 Records in Aviation. New York Times, p 40, col 3, Aug 10 '80.
Johnson, Ann R. (LtCol). The WASP of World War II. Aerospace Historian 17:7682 Summer-Fall '70.
Johnson, L. B. RagstoBigRiches.
Saturday Review 37:18 Nov 6 '54.
Review of Jacqueline Cochran's book entitled The Stars at Noon.
Kaplan, H. R. America's Flying Heroines of World War II. Sergeants 20:2226 Dec '82.
Merrill, J. F. AirBorne Cinderella. Senior Scholastic 66:4 Mar 23 '55.
Miss Cochran Holds Most Jet Records. Aviation Week 58:26 Jun 22 '53.
Newcomb, Harold (SMSgt). Cochran's Convent. Airman 21: 1622 May '77.
Reserve Heritage: Jackie Cochran. Citizen Airman 49:12-13 Apr '97
Ress, Paul. Sweet Explosion in the Air. Sports Illustrated 19: 1617 Jul 8 '63.
Tanner, Doris Brinker. We Also Served. American History Illustrated 20:12-21+ Nov '85
Taves, Isabella. Lady in a Jet. Reader's Digest 67:6871 Aug '55.
Valentine, E. R. No. 1 Woman Flier; J. Cochran, Who Flew a Bomber to Britian, Advises American Women To Follow British Example. New York Times Magazine, p 11 +, Jul 13 '41.
Woman in War. Time 40:67 Nov 2 '42.
Old Friends: Six Who Flew. [Palm Springs, CA]:
Big Picture, Historical Film and Video, 1993. 30 minutes.
Nostalgic visit with six pioneers of flight; includes interview
with Cochran.
Video call no.: 358.4009 O44