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241) Wings over Sakishima
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
This book is a true story about the military action taken by the US and their allies against the Japanese Army and Navy who were defending two small islands in a region of the Ryukyu Islands called Sakishima Gunto in late 1944 and 1945.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"While the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife's Edge Robert C. Stern provides an account of the Battles of the Eastern Solomons and the Santa Cruz Islands, the two pivotal carrier air battles that followed the initial engagements at the Coral Sea and Midway between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The Freeman Field Mutiny, as it became known, would eventually...
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Presented are some of America's best war films that feature a comprehensive set on the Army Air Forces in WWII. These are the original films as they were shot and feature real war footage documentaries that have been preserved by the National Archives of the United States.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Beyond the camouflage and bloodshed lies the striking secrets that changed history.Discover the most daring covert operations, ingenious spy gadgets and cunning military deceptions that forever changed the course of history. Painstakingly researched with previously classified footage from private sources and government archives from all over the world, Secrets of War exposes the real stories of the 20th century s greatest conflicts.Narrated by Oscar®...
247) Closing the Ring
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
World War II. On June 1, 1944, a United States bomber pilot crashes onto the Cave Hill just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He lives long enough to give a ring to a stranger and asks that he return it to his girlfriend. 50 years later, a young man searches for the woman to make good on a promise.
249) Memphis Belle
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Based on a true story about the famous plane of World War II, the Flying Fortress, Memphis Belle is about the crew of one of the B-17s flying their last mission before they can go home to a hero's welcome.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015?], c1989
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Description
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 351
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of three Americans who came of age fighting in the Pacific...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Pilot and world champion runner Orville Rogers trained bomber pilots in World War II, flew the B-36 on secret missions during the Lorean Conflict, ferried airplanes to remote Baptist missions all over the world, and managed to squeeze in a thirty-one-year career as a pilot with Braniff Airways. As if that wasn't enough, Orville took up running at age fifty-one and ran his first marathon six years later. At age ninety he broke two world records.
Author
Series
North Texas military biography and memoir volume no. 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Nancy Love was 16 when she earned her private pilot's license. Twelve years later, during World War II, she organized and led 300 women pilots for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, U.S. Army Air Forces. She was a trailblazing pilot as well as commander and a founder of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Nancy Love's vision, her leadership, and her service to country during World War II, forever changed women's role in aviation."...
256) Air power: Vol. 2
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"The riveting stories of World War II air combat"--container.
257) Air power: Vol. 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"The riveting stories of World War II air combat"--container.
258) Air power: Vol. 3
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"The riveting stories of World War II air combat"--container.
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