OLIVIA SEES NEW BOMBER
First Woman Allowed in Cockpit When Olivia de Havilland went to the United States Naval Air Base at North Island, San Diego, for two weeks of location work as feminine star of "Wings of the Navy,” the Warner Bros.-Cosmopolitan picture, Miss de Havilland became the first woman ever allowed to sit in the cockpit of one of the American navy’s giant new twinmotored patrol and bombing planes. The instrument board of the giant navy plane, which is the last word in Uncle Sam's secret preparedness for national emergencies, was covered when she entered the plane.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 5
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99OLIVIA SEES NEW BOMBER Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 5
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