"A Chinesesoldier guards a line ofAmerican P-40fighter planes, painted with the shark-face emblemof the 'flyingTigers,' at a flying fieldsomewhere in China." ca. 1942.
And there would be no home runs flying out of Coors Field either as snow prompted the postponement of Wednesday's night baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and New York Mets.
But any hopes they had for gaining a foothold in commercial aviation were dashed when the Commerce Department, under pressure from underemployed male pilots, exiled women from the field by prohibiting them from flying planes carrying passengers in bad weather.