Yesterday's Installment of "Women who kicked butt"
The Nazi assistant air service (basically pilots who flew aircraft from factories to the frontline units so that the actual air force troops could focus on fighting) employed women, and it definitely involved getting in harm’s way. One of its officers, Beate Uhse, was a very skilled pilot who flew Stukas, Fw190s, Me-109s and even Me-262s, frequently encountering Allied fighters and getting away without a scratch. After the war, when as a former Luftwaffe pilot she wasn’t allowed to fly, she took a career in sexual education and eventually founded the world’s first sex shop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Uhse-Rotermund (click on the link, definitely worth a deeper read)
