Jacky Hyams

JACKY HYAMS is the bestselling author of Bombsites and Lollipops (John Blake, 2011). More recently, she has written Frances Kray: The Tragic Bride (John Blake, 2014) and Vicious, Elegant Bastards (The History Press, 2022).

Articles by Jacky Hyams

12th June, 2017 in Aviation, Military, Women in History

‘Doing their bit’: The female fighter pilots of World War II

No, they told me again and again, there was nothing special about them. They were just ‘doing their bit’ for their country. Modest to a fault, these women faced danger, sudden death, serious injury or bereavement on an almost daily basis. Yet there was nothing, they insisted, rem…