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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program in the US at Tuskegee University in Alabama. While this...
Author
Publisher
Crecy Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2016, 2014.
Description
The years of World War II saw the greatest single leap in US military aircraft technology and design, from the relatively fragile pre-war designs to the very edge of the supersonic era. Many remarkable aircraft came and went in quick succession with some missions and types disappearing altogether. Indeed, there were scores of little known or minimally documented aircraft projects which significantly advanced technology of aeronautics, propulsion,...
Author
Publisher
Publishers Group UK [distributor]
Pub. Date
2006, 2005
Description
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II-and they were legion-Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform-as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field. Seeing war on the horizon, Jimmy Stewart, at the height of his fame after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and his Oscar-winning turn...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
By June 1942, the Japanese Navy has swept across the Pacific. In an effort to change the course of the war, a United States carrier group is positioned off the coast of Midway, tasked with springing a trap on the enemy. During this pivotal battle, the two-man crew of a U.S. Navy dive bomber is forced to ditch in the sea. Set adrift, the men look towards their comrades for rescue.
Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Winter 1944, Yugoslavia. American airmen parachuted from crippled bombers. Some landed in safety. Others were slaughtered by German fire. Extreme weather closed the skies; the Germans blocked the path to the sea. British agents eventually extracted sixty-six airmen. Eighteen remained-- and were sent over the mountains at the prodding of guns by the Partisan forces who were desperate to rid themselves of the Americans. Stanley, the son of one of the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith. Smith is one of the most...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Press
Pub. Date
1999
Description
The memoir of a woman test pilot in World War II. The author belonged to a corps of women pilots on the home front who for the most part delivered planes and tested repaired ones. In her case, however, she experimentally tested the B-29 Superfortress and the Bell YP-59A jet fighter. After the war she became a journalist and sailor, sailing all the way to Turkey.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Capturing the hearts of a beleaguered nation, the fighter pilots of World War II engaged in a kind of battle that became the stuff of legend--and those who survived showdowns earned the right to be called aces. But two men in particular rose to become something more. They became icons of aerial combat, in a heroic rivalry that inspired a weary nation to fight on. Richard "Dick" Bong was the bashful, pink-faced farm boy from the Midwest. Thomas "Tommy"...
93) Tuskegee airmen
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book/Bolt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief look at the use of American Indian soldiers who used their native languages to communicate during World War II to prevent enemies from understanding what was being said.
94) A higher call
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
2021, 2018.
Description
Taking off from England on March 16, 1944, young Lt. George Starks and the nine-man crew of his Flying Fortress were assigned to the "coffin corner," the most exposed position in the bomber formation headed for Germany. They never got there. Shot down over Nazi-occupied France, the airmen bailed out one by one, scattered across the countryside. Miraculously, all ten survived, but as they discarded their parachutes in the farmland of Champagne, their...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2006
Description
They were called Easy Company, but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe, an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander, and this is his story based on his wartime diary. Only Winters was present from the activation of Easy Company until the war's end. On D-Day, Dick Winters parachuted into France and assumed leadership of the company...
98) Never quit: from Alaskan wilderness rescues to Afghanistan : firefights as an elite special ops PJ
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"An Alaskan pararescue jumper, Special Forces Operator and decorated war hero details his amazing life, "--NoveList.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Description
The story of an experiment -- "to see if Blacks had the intellectual and physical ability to fly an aircraft in combat." These pilots, trained in the "deep South, " became the Tuskegee Airmen, flying combat aircraft during World War II for their country. They had to battle on 2 fronts: the Axis powers in Europe and North Africa, and the racism at home.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The founder of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons program, aka "TOPGUN, " shares the untold story of how he and eight other young pilots revolutionized the art of aerial combat and created the center for excellence and incubator of leadership that thrives to this day."--Provided by publisher.
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