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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Author
Series
Wings of glory volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
422 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval--even marry a man she doesn't love. Lt. Walter Novak--fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women--takes his last furlough at home in California before being shipped overseas. Walt and Allie meet at a wedding and their love of music draws them together, prompting them to begin a correspondence that will change their lives. As letters fly between Walt's...
8) Air war!
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell [...] weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history....
12) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
15) Mustang at war
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1975] c1974
Edition
1st ed. in the USA.
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Da Capo Press edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 292 pages, 8 pages of unnumberd plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the untold story of a German luxury liner that was used as a movie prop for the Nazi propoganda film, "Titanic," before being acquired for military service as a people carrier and floating concentration camp.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardback ed.
Physical Desc
316 p. : photos., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whirlwind is the only book to examine in depth the human drama behind the most important bombing campaign in history. While the air war against Nazi Germany has been covered in-depth by many books, Barrett Tillman, a renowned authority on military aircraft and the air war in the Pacific, is the first to tackle the air war against Japan. For decades, historians and politicians have debated whether or not Japan was on the verge of surrender in August...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...