United States Air Force Biographical Dictionary
Author : Flint O. DuPre
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Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Flint O. DuPre
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Walter Lee Hawkins
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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This revised edition of the 1993 "African American Generals and Flag Officers: Biographies of Over 120 Blacks in the United States Military" offers detailed, career-oriented summaries for men and women who often had overcome societal obstacles to become ranking officers in the U.S. military.
Author : Flint O. DuPre
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Capsule biographies of military airmen over a span of more thanfifty years - from the Wright Brothers to Mercury and Gemini space flights.
Author : Carl Berger
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Reina Pennington
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Technology & Engineering
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With entries overviewing groups such as the Amazons, women in the Spanish Civil War, and Native American women and entries profiling over 300 women, tells their stories, focusing particularly on women who fought. With a focus on those who fought, this two-volume reference for scholars and general readers contains alphabetically arranged entries on some 300 military women from antiquity to the present. The entries are also listed by geographic region, time period, branch of service, prisoner status, and by group or organization. Pennington (affiliation not cited) presents a historical overview of women in the military and in war in the introduction, while an extensive timeline traces the accomplishments of women in military history reaching back to 9000 BCE. Bibliographic surveys of women as prisoners of war and women's participation in military medicine are found in the appendix.
Author : Steven E. Maffeo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442255641
This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented techniques, procedures, and equipment from scratch, not only allowing the United States to hold its own in the Pacific despite the loss of most of its Fleet at Pearl Harbor, but also laying the foundation of today’s intelligence methods and agencies. One-hundred years ago, in what was clearly an unsophisticated pre-information era, naval intelligence (and foreign intelligence in general) existed in rudimentary forms almost incomprehensible to us today. Founded in 1882, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)—the modern world’s “oldest continuously operating intelligence agency”—functioned for at least its first forty years with low manning, small budgets, low priority, and no prestige. The navy’s early steps into communications intelligence (COMINT), which included activities such as radio interception, radio traffic analysis, and cryptology, came with the 1916 establishment of the Code and Signals Section within the navy’s Division of Communications and with the 1924 creation of the “Research Desk” as part of the Section. Like ONI, this COMINT organization suffered from low budgets, manning, priority, and prestige. The dictionary focuses on these pioneers, many of whom went on, even after World War II, to important positions in the Navy, the State Department, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency. It reveals the work and innovations of well and lesser-known individuals who created the foundations of today’s intelligence apparatus and analysis.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 1428915850
Author : Jan Onofrio
Publisher : Somerset Publishers, Inc.
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0403093074
South Carolina Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of South Carolina. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.
Author : Mark Grossman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0816074771
Articles profiling important military leaders are arranged in A to Z format.
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Page : 726 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Aeronautics
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