Cornelia Fort
(1919-1943)
Military Aviator

Kaplan, Carol Farrar, and Livy I. Simpson. Remember the Ladies: Women of Mount Olivet Cemetery. Nashville, Tenn.: C. Kaplan & L. Simpson, 1995.

Simbeck, Rob. Daughter of the Air: The Brief Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.

Tanner, Doris Brinker. "Cornelia Fort: A WASP in World War II, Part I." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 40 (Winter 1981): 381-394.

---. "Cornelia Fort: Pioneer Woman Military Aviator, Part II." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 41 (Spring 1982): 67-80.

Tinling, Marion. Women Remembered: A Guide to Landmarks of Women's History in the United States. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. 259-60.


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