Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979
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Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, a competitive pilot and flight instructor from Garden City, Minnesota. Whyte discusses her family history, her childhood and education, moving to Oregon, her initial interests in flying, her training in nursing, taking up flying, winning her first race, teaching others to fly, becoming a flight instructor full-time, Prohibition bootlegging, races, a crash, Amelia Earhart, the growth of women in aviation, service as a Army Air Corps nurse during World War Two, …
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Date:
February 8, 1979
Creator:
Jenkins, Floyd & White, Edna Gardner
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UNT Oral History Program