Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1623703182
"Tells the story of U.S. pilots who faced danger every day attempting to deliver supplies over "The Hump" to the Chinese during World War II"--
Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2016-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1491451661
"Tells the story of U.S. pilots who faced danger every day attempting to deliver supplies over "The Hump" to the Chinese during World War II"--
Author : Nedda Davis
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Air pilots, Military
ISBN : 9781940773209
Based on the true life exploits of a World War II pilot flying the dangerous route over the Himalayas, the book brings to light a little known facet of World War II. "Flying the Hump" was the name given by American pilots to flying over the treacherous air currents of the Himalayas during World War II. It was an extremely dangerous but necessary route American pilots traveled to bring vital material to Chinese troops in China, and American, and other Allied forces in the Pacific. The material transported, critical to the Allied war effort in the early days enabled the Allies to persist while the industrial might of the United States was retooling.--Publisher.
Author : Sharon Lee
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1618249541
#5 from Baen in the award-winning Liaden Universe® saga. Space ships, action, adventure¾all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and intrigue. First Class courier pilot Theo Waitley was already known as a nexus of violence¾and then she inherited the precarious captaincy of a mysterious self-aware ship. Now she has a trade route to run for Clan Korval while she convinces the near mythic ghost ship Bechimo¾and herself¾that she wants to commit herself as the human side to their immensely powerful symbiosis. While her former lover battles a nano-virus thats eating him alive, Theo is challenged to rescue hundreds of stranded pilots and crewmen from an explosive situation in near orbit around a suddenly hostile planet. Lovers, enemies, an ex-roomie, and a jealous spaceship are all in peril as Theo wields power that no one in the universe is sure of, especially her. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1429961325
Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2018-06
Category : Fighter pilots
ISBN : 9781911171515
The year is 1927, and in America, England and Russia, three young girls share a dream: to fly. But it won't be easy. Against the odds, Hazel, Marlene and Lilya follow their hearts, enrolling in pilot courses and eventually flying for the countries in WWII. Follow the adventures of these young women as they battle not only enemies in the skies but sexism and inequality in their own teams. Risking their lives countless times in feats of incredible bravery, the female air pilots of the Second World War are honoured in this beautiful book, illustrated in Sally Deng's raw, dynamic style.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Alaska
ISBN :
Author : Robert Gadbois
Publisher : Merriam Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2005-12
Category : Fighter pilots
ISBN : 1576383334
From enlistment in 1942, through cadet aviation training, joining VBF-12/Air Group 12 as a SB2C Helldiver pilot, later switching to the F6F Hellcat, embarking on the USS Randolph (CV-15), and conducting air operations including fighter sweeps over Tokyo, combat missions over Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and fighting off kamikaze attacks.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN :
The naval aviation safety review.
Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Dixon Entrance (B.C. and Alaska)
ISBN :
