Cornelia Fort
Cornelia Clark Fort (born February 5, 1919 in Nashville , † March 21, 1943 in Mulberry Canyon ) was an American pilot .
Career
Fort came from a wealthy and well-known Nashville family. The father Rufus Elijah Fort was the founder of the "National Life and Accident Insurance". Fort graduated from Ward-Belmont School in 1936 and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1939 . She then joined the Junior League of Nashville charity. She showed an early interest in aviation and acquired a private pilot's license in 1940 .
She then advanced to trainer flight students in Hawaii . On December 7, 1941, she unwantedly witnessed the attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Forces on Pearl Harbor . She was barely able to evade the attack by the enemy planes and land her plane on the John Rodger civil airport in a daring action. After this incident, she was recruited by the Women Airforce Service Pilots , an organization whose main task was to transfer military aircraft from the USA to the UK under the direction of the US Air Force . There she died during a training flight with a BT-13 . She got into a catastrophic air collision with another aircraft and crashed while serving the US Air Force on March 21, 1943 near Merkel , Texas. She was dead instantly.
Honors
- Cornelia Fort Airpark, Nashville
- In the film “ Torah! Torah! Torah! “(1970) she is played by Jeff Donnell
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Check-Six.com: The Epic of Cornelia Fort ... 2018, accessed on March 25, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Away, Cornelia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fort, Cornelia Clark (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nashville |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1943 |
| Place of death | Mulberry Canyon |