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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Juana Summers / The Bulletin
June 28, 2009
AUSTIN, Texas — Susie Bain found her place in the sky when she was 21.
The Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, and Bain had left college because it was too expensive. She enrolled in clerical school, but when a friend told her about a chance to fly as one of the Women Airforce Service....