I wrote this:

During the Vietnam War, the women who served on special Pan Am flights flew into a war zone to transport soldiers. Why has their role been forgotten? - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/05/13/during-vietnam-war-women-who-served-special-pan-am-flights-flew-into-war-zone-transport-soldiers-why-has-their-role-been-forgotten/

Flights routinely took ground fire.

Entire crews were held hostage by both US soldiers and Vietnamese dissidents.

Pilots who flew into war zones got hazardous duty pay — the women did not.

The story got lost because women’s work gets lost when men are telling the story.

And Vietnam is a story America tries to forget

Some 800 women were taking fire in combat zones at least 30 years before the US armed forces lifted the combat exclusion for women

The women have never been formally recognized by congress or the USAF for their service in the war

Commercial airlines brought 93 percent of US troops to war in Vietnam and 1/4 of the military cargo

A typical soldier’s tour was 1 year in country — many women flew in Vietnam from the buildup under Johnson to the last flight out of Saigon in 75

No soldier - and few politicians - saw as much of the Vietnam War for as long

These women are now an average age of 72 and these are their war stories

My favorite detail: Each woman was ranked 2nd Lieutenant in the USAF so that if she was shot down and captured she could claim the privileges of a POW under the Geneva Conventions