had earned her pilot’s license and begun pursuing the aviation career everyone around her said would be impossible for a woman of her generation.
She entered military aviation at a time when doors that seemed permanently locked were beginning to open.
The obstacles were relentless.
Some instructors questioned whether women belonged in demanding flight programs. Some engineers assumed she would struggle with the physical and technical requirements. Certain colleagues treated every mistake she made as evidence that women should never have been admitted in the first place.
Pauline learned to
