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Author | : Suzanne North |
Publisher | : Brindle and Glass |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1927366232 |
In 1939, Kay Jeynes, a lively, ambitious young working-class woman, goes to work for the only Japanese businessman in town, the elderly, wealthy, Oxford-educated Mr. Miyashita. Despite differences in their age, race, and class, a friendship develops between them in the peaceful vacuum of Mr. Miyashita's office. But outside, on the city streets, a dark chapter in recent history is taking shape. As war looms, relations between North America and Japan grow steadily worse. Travel becomes impossible for Mr. Miyashita, so he asks Kay to cross the Pacific Ocean to retrieve a family heirloom, even as the Imperial Navy is maneuvering into position for the attack on Pearl Harbor. On this journey, Kay commits some seemingly small sins of omission. But in the paranoid climate of the times, these little white lies put Mr. Miyashita at risk of being arrested as a spy.
Author | : Florian Ion Petrescu |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 2011 |
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ISBN | : 1447752813 |
Author | : Jim Doyle |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2005-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612342191 |
Imagine what it would be like to talk and fly with the men who flew the airplanes of World War II. What was in their minds as they made their first solos? And what was air combat like? Flying Through Time is the closest many of us will come to understanding what it was like to be a WWII aviator.Tens of thousands of AmericaOCOs pilots during World War II trained in the Boeing Stearman biplane. For most, it was their first airplane in a series of larger, faster, and more dangerous aircraft that they used to fight the war. The pilots would never forget their first flights in a Stearman and the adventures that followed. Jim Doyle, owner of a restored 1941 Stearman, retraced the wartime journeys of his plane, crossing the country twice; flying over California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas; and touching down at each of the eight bases at which it served. Flying Through Time is the story of DoyleOCOs challenging flight and of the uncertainties of piloting a sixty-year-old biplane almost 8,000 miles. His experiences meeting, talking, and flying with the men who flew the legendary Stearman paint a vivid picture of the intense, emotion-filled days of World War II. The pilotsOCO recollections, refreshed for many when they took the controls of DoyleOCOs plane, are woven throughout the narrative of his trip. These anecdotes, and new information from an archive discovered during the flight, tell of fears, courage, humor, and the sheer adventure of the events that owned the veteransOCO youth. This is seat-of-the-pants flying at its most thrilling, recalling a time when ordinary young Americans were called upon to be heroes."
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Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1919 |
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Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Author | : United States. Army. Air Corps |
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Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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