Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story

Name: Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story
Director: Mark C. Bonn
Genre: Documentary, Biography, War, Short
Released: 2010-04-01
Duration: 1980 s
Cast: Vi Cowden

Directed by Mark C. Bonn

2010 33m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary), [Biography](/on-demand/category/biography)

8.5

“Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story,” follows one 93-year-old woman’s journey from the Black Hills of South Dakota where she learned to fly biplanes, to flying fighter planes for the Army Air Corps in 1943 & ’44. Vi was among these first women in United States history to fly military planes, and one of 114 who flew Pursuit Planes like the P51 and Thunderbolt!