Gracie and the Radar Girls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781952467110)

Within weeks of the bombing at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the military began a

clandestine recruitment of intelligent, brave and loyal women. They were quickly and

meticulously trained to take over a vital and top-secret program that would be

instrumental in winning the war. They became known as the Women's Air Raid Defense

(WARD).

Grace Hudlow (Gracie) was just sixteen years old when World War ll upturned life in

America. She struggled to understand the devastating loss of life. The day before her

eighteenth birthday, her fiancé became a casualty of the war. Not one to sit on the

sidelines, Gracie packed up her adventurous spirit and heart for service. She left

everything behind and boarded a Liberty ship to join an elite group of women serving on

the island of Oahu in a covert underground tunnel, code-named-

LIZARD.