Kimberly's Flight: The Story of Captain Kimberly Hampton,

Kimberly's Flight: The Story of Captain Kimberly Hampton, America’s First Woman Combat Pilot Killed in Battle
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U.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Hampton was living her dream: flying armed helicopters in combat and commanding D Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry, the armed reconnaissance aviation squadron of the 82nd Airborne Division. An all-American girl from a small southern mill town, Kimberly was a top scholar, student body president, ROTC battalion commander, and highly ranked college tennis player. In 1998 she was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army. Then, driven by determination and ambition, Kimberly rapidly rose through the ranks in the almost all-male bastion of military aviation to command a combat aviation troop. On January 2, 2004, Captain Hampton was flying an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter above Fallujah, Iraq, in support of a raid on an illicit weapons marketplace, searching for an illusive sniper on the rooftops of the city. A little past noon her helicopter was wracked by an explosion. A heat-seeking surface-to-air missile had gone into the exhaust and knocked off the helicopterâ€™s tail boom. The helicopter crashed, killing Kimberly. Kimberlyâ€™s Flight is the story of Captain Hamptonâ€™s exemplary life. This story is told through nearly fifty interviews and her own e-mails to family and friends, and is entwined with Ann Hamptonâ€™s narrative of loving and losing a child. Retired award-winning journalist Anna Simon was been a reporter with The Greenville News in South Carolina for 21 years. She received the South Carolina Press Associationâ€™s first place award for Reporting in Depth for 2009, and is a past recipient of multiple awards in education reporting, the press associationâ€™s Judson Chapman Award for Community Service, and other news and feature writing awards. Kimberlyâ€™s mother, Ann Hampton, first met Anna Simon at the bleakest point in her life, immediately following her daughterâ€™s death, when Ms. Simon wrote a series of stories for The Greenville News about Kimberlyâ€™s life and the reaction in the small Southern town of Easley, SC to her death. Ann has traveled twice to Iraq, in 2010, as a Gold Star Mom in a "Hugs for Healing" program sanctioned by the U.S. State Department, where American and Iraqi mothers grieving the deaths of their children worked side-by-side on humanitarian projects, and in 2011 on a humanitarian mission with â€œFriends of Kurdistan.â€
Country USA
Brand Casemate
Manufacturer Casemate
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 16 pages colour photos
Model 16 pages colour photos
ReleaseDate 2012-05-19
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781612001029

Country	USA
Brand	Casemate
Manufacturer	Casemate
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	16 pages colour photos
Model	16 pages colour photos
ReleaseDate	2012-05-19
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781612001029

Kimberly's Flight: The Story of Captain Kimberly Hampton, America’s First Woman Combat Pilot Killed in Battle

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