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| Author | : Alan C. Carey |
| Publisher | : Schiffer Book for Collectors (Hardcover) |
| Total Pages | : 115 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780764311703 |
We Flew Alone: United States Navy B-24 Liberator Squadrons in the Pacific: February 1943 to September 1944, is the first comprehensive book written on the operations of Navy B-24 Liberator squadrons in the Pacific War. In this first of two volumes, Alan C. Carey, the author of the Reluctant Raiders: The Story of United States Navy Bombing Squadron VB/VPB-109 in World War II, examines the formation and use of the B-24 Liberator by the United States Navy. From the birth of the first squadron and their deployment to Guadalcanal in early 1943 to the squadrons that participated in the Central Pacific campaign, every Navy Liberator squadron is discussed in detail.
| Author | : Alan C. Carey |
| Publisher | : Schiffer Military History |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Above an Angry Sea chronicles USN B-24 Liberator (PB4Y-1) and PB4Y-2 Privateer operations in the Pacific. The author's previous book, We Flew Alone, discussed the Navy's use of the B-24 Liberator from February 1943 to September 1944. He now examines in dramatic detail the use of the B-24 and PB4Y-2 during the last eleven months of the war against Japan. The author has collected personal stories, over 200 photographs, a tabulation of all aerial kills credited to PB4Y patrol plane commanders, a roster of all personnel killed in action or in the line of duty, individual squadron records, and a list of all known B-24 Liberators and PB4Y-2 Privateers assigned to the Pacific between 1943 and 1945.
| Author | : Clyde Edgerton |
| Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2006-11-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1565128362 |
"A heartfelt celebration of the flying life." —The New York Times When Clyde Edgerton was four years old, his mother took him to the local airport to see the planes. For Edgerton, it was love at first sight. Eighteen years later, she would take him to the same airport to catch a flight to Texas for Air Force pilot training. In Solo, Edgerton tells the story of his lifelong love affair with flying, from his childlike wonder to his job as a fighter pilot flying reconnaissance over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Now, nearly thirty-five years after the war in Vietnam, he looks back at his youthful passion for flying, at the joy he took in mastering it, at the exhilaration—and lingering anguish—of combat flying. It is a story told with empathy and humor—and with searing honesty that will resonate with every pilot who remembers the first takeoff, the first landing, the first solo. For the nonpilots who always choose the window seat, it’s a thrilling story to live vicariously.
| Author | : Marie Arnold |
| Publisher | : Versify |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0358272750 |
After moving from her home in Haiti to her uncle's home in Brooklyn, ten-year-old Gabrielle, feeling bullied and out of place, makes a misguided deal with a witch.
| Author | : Craig A. Kleinsmith |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2020-07-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476683298 |
For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M. Eyer served as a B-17 ball turret gunner over Europe during World War II. Based in part on a secret journal he kept as a prisoner of war, this book records Eyer's firsthand account of his harrowing 59 combat missions (B-17 crewmen could not expect to survive 10), his escape from a burning B-17 deep inside Germany, the horrors of confinement in a Nazi POW camp, and his survival of an 80-day forced march during the brutal winter of 1944-45.
| Author | : George Sullivan |
| Publisher | : Frederick Warne |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Aeronautics |
| ISBN | : |
Describes fourteen flights by pilots who faced the unknown alone from Wilbur Wright, the first man to achieve powered flight, to Frank Whittle and Jacqueline Cochran, the first man and woman to fly a jet.
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| Total Pages | : 910 |
| Release | : 1919 |
| Genre | : England |
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| Author | : Roald Dahl |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2012-02-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0141965339 |
In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa. 'They did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton, and they were astounded when they came upon my still-breathing body lying in the sand nearby.' In 1938 Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far more excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the RAF. His account of his experiences in Africa, crashing a plane in the Western Desert, rescue and recovery from his horrific injuries in Alexandria, flying a Hurricane as Greece fell to the Germans, and many other daring deeds, recreates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any he wrote about in his fiction. 'Very nearly as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of wide-eyed innocence and fascination with danger and horror' Evening Standard 'A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship' The New York Times Book Review Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
| Author | : Tjien Oei |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2009-03-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1462838154 |
This is a book depicting the lives of twenty Chinese Indonesian doctors who left Indonesia to immigrate to the USA and to start a new chapter of their lives. Many of the stories started after they graduated from the Medical School. Some of them were placed in remote villages outside Java. Many of those villages had not been served by Physicians before. Support from the Central Government was scare. At that time, the late President Sukarno declared that graduated from Medical schools had to serve the country for three years before they were allowed to specialize or pursue their future plans. These doctors must complete the ECFMG, English and health tests before they could be considered for accredited for internship/residency. After successfully doing their training, they now could apply for a position as a specialist in a hospital or a medical center. Many times they had to be under the supervision of a hospital Director of Education for a period of 2 years. In the meantime, they had to take their Specialty Boards exam to be qualifi ed. Many have successfully done their practice and some became well known in their fi elds. Their Children went to Colleges and Universities and have pursued careers in Medicine Law, Engineering and others.
| Author | : Tjien O. Oei |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2007-03-20 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1462837026 |
As a boy in a small town in South Central Java, Indonesia I like to watch Western cowboy movies usually in black and white ,looking at shiny American cars and reading about America and I hope some day I will see America myself. After I graduated in 1958 from the medical school University of Indonesia in Jakarta I maried my long time sweetheart Laney Ouw and the same year I moved to Makassar to fulfill my obligation to the Government The Univ. of Hasannudin in Makassar send me to a graduate course in 1961 in Biochemistry at the University of Tennessee Memphis TN USA After living for one year in the USA my feeling to live in America is still my desire The murder of the six Army generals of the Indonesian Army on October 1 1965 cause a turmoil in the country and demonstrations and rioting and looting took place in several cities in Java and Sumatra makes me more aware that I need to live in the USA to be free of this turmoil. In August 1967 I left with my wife and 2 children Meike and Charles for Birmingham AL USA with a legal visa .And started my internship in Medicine and later my residency in Pathology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham In 1970 I accepted a position at the Dept of Pathology Indiana University in Indianapolis Indiana In 1973 I and my wife and Meike and Charles were sworn in as US Citizen and peace came over me .Now I know that me and my family have a country that is democratic and free. Two more children were born in Birmingham Grace and David both and the older children give us much joy and feeling of setled in America Climbing through the Ranks I became Professor and Senior Assoiate Chairman and Chief of Service Dept of Pathology under Dr Nordschow ,the Chairman who supported me through all those years. In 1998 I retired fully and still live in Indianapolis Indiana .
