Montville Re-Enactment Tells Story of Women in World War II

A re-enactment at Montville Township Public Library told the story of women pilots during World War II, according to a report by Tap Into Montville.

Re-enactor Carol Levin Simon told the story of Ann Baumgartener Carl, a New Jersey woman in the vanguard of the U.S. Air Force during the war, the report states.

Carl was inspired by a visit by Amelia Earhart to her school and bought a small plane with a friend that had to be grounded when the war started, according to the report.

She went to flight school and became a part of the WASPs, the Woman AIrforce Service Pilots, and was responsible for testing experimental aircraft and flying newly constructed planes to their destinations. She was also the first American woman to ever fly a jet plane, the report states.