Flyboys

Author : James Bradley
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759508321

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Flyboys by James Bradley Pdf

The classic New York Times bestselling story of heroism and sacrifice--by the author of Flags of Our Fathers, The Imperial Cruise, and The China Mirage. This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. What happened to the other eight remained a secret for almost 60 years. After the war, the American and Japanese governments conspired to cover up the shocking truth, and not even the families of the airmen were informed of what happened to their sons. Their fate remained a mystery--until now. FLYBOYS is a tale of courage and daring, of war and death, of men and hope. It will make you proud and it will break your heart.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-03T22:59:00Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781669377115

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Summary of James Bradley's Flyboys by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had developed a professional relationship with Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, after the publication of my first book, Flags of Our Fathers. In early February 2001, she suggested I contact a man named Bill Doran in Iowa. He had some interesting information. #2 The transcript contained the full proceedings of a trial establishing the fates of eight American airmen who were downed in the vicinity of Iwo Jima during World War II. The airmen were charged with destroying Chichi Jima’s communications stations, and they were the first to engage in combat aviation in large numbers. #3 The American Flyboys, who fought in the Pacific in 1945, were part of an air war that dwarfed the land war below. The endgame in the northern Pacific was the incineration of Japan, and this required two layers of bombers in the sky. #4 The eight Flyboys’ brothers and sisters, girlfriends, and aviator buddies gave me photos, letters, and medals. I tracked down the families and friends of the Flyboys who could only tell me so much.

Author : Tom Hanley TFT B.S.A.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780738808659

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Flyboys by Tom Hanley TFT B.S.A. Pdf

Tommy Riley and his friends are growing up among the men and machines of a key Air Force Base in the middle of the Cold War. One day, the boys sneak into a top-secret reconnaissance bomber, switch on the radio, and overhear a commie plan that is so diabolical . . .

Author : Greg Tate
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373995

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Flyboy 2 by Greg Tate Pdf

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles Davis or Ice Cube, reviewing an Azealia Banks mixtape or Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, discussing visual artist Kara Walker or writer Clarence Major, or analyzing the ties between Afro-futurism, Black feminism, and social movements, Tate's resounding critical insights illustrate how race, gender, and class become manifest in American popular culture. Above all, Tate demonstrates through his signature mix of vernacular poetics and cultural theory and criticism why visionary Black artists, intellectuals, aesthetics, philosophies, and politics matter to twenty-first-century America.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1690 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UOM:39015074886741

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Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board by United States. National Labor Relations Board Pdf

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Puffin HC
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0143176315

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Fly Boy by Eric Walters Pdf

Robbie's father is a spitfire pilot who was shot down during World War II and is now a POW. At only seventeen, Robbie lies about his identity to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force under the guise of going to a boarding school so that his mother doesn't find out. He starts training in Brandon, Manitoba, but after acing all his classes, he's dealt a disappointing blow when he's assigned to be a navigator on a Lancaster. He wanted to be a pilot, just like his father, but the commanders of the air force have other ideas. Robbie is soon on his way to England, where he completes his training on missions bombing German targets in enemy territory. It is during one of these missions that his Lancaster is fired upon and the pilot and many of the crew are shot. It's up to Robbie and his limited piloting experience to save the crew...and himself.

Author : David Sears
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459622869

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Pacific Air by David Sears Pdf

The exhilarating epic story of the heroic fighter pilots whose fast - flying, hard - turning planes turned the tide in the Pacific theater during World War II....

Author : Col[Ret] G. Brennand
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525504969

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Farm Boy To Fly Boy by Col[Ret] G. Brennand Pdf

From his childhood growing up in Depression-era rural Manitoba to his rise through the ranks to become a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Col Gordon Brennand’s memoir, Farm Boy to Flyboy, is as much a history of the RCAF in the twentieth century as it is an account of his own life. Born a bit too late to participate in WWII, Gordon was inspired by Canada’s involvement in the Korean War to pursue a life in the military. After a failed start in the Navy, he enlisted with the Air Force with faint hopes of perhaps becoming a fighter pilot. Not only did he succeed, he logged four thousand hours on various jet aircraft types including over 1100 hours on the F-86 Sabre, which was the state-of-the-art fighter jet throughout most his thirty-four-year career, not to mention hundreds of hours on various other types of aircraft. He experienced several close calls during that time, including one incident when he had to eject and another when he had to force land due to engine failure. He went on to command two bases and has spent time living in most Canadian provinces as well as Germany, where he served for three years during the Cold War. Fascinating and insightful, this book will appeal to those who are fascinated by the military and flying as well as those who are simply seeking a first-person account of what life was really like for the men and women who served in the RCAF throughout one of the most pivotal periods of twentieth-century history.

Author : James Bradley
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316196666

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The China Mirage by James Bradley Pdf

"Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --Christian Science Monitor James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble Chinese peasants eager to Westernize. The media propagated this mirage, and FDR believed that supporting Chiang Kai-shek would make China America's best friend in Asia. But Chiang was on his way out and when Mao Zedong instead came to power, Americans were shocked, wondering how we had "lost China." From the 1850s to the origins of the Vietnam War, Bradley reveals how American misconceptions about China have distorted our policies and led to the avoidable deaths of millions. The China Mirage dynamically explores the troubled history that still defines U.S.-Chinese relations today.

Author : Alfredo Véa
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806155470

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The Mexican Flyboy by Alfredo Véa Pdf

What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths? What if we could rewrite history to protect and reward the innocent victims of injustice? In Alfredo Véa’s daring new novel, one man does just that, taking readers on a series of remarkable journeys. Abandoned as a child, brooding and haunted as an adult, Simon Vegas, “the Mexican Flyboy,” toils for years to repair a time machine that fell into his hands in Vietnam. With the help of his friend, eccentric Hephaestus Segundo, Simon uses the device to fly through time. Wherever acts of human cruelty take place, in the past or in the present, the machine lets him lift the suffering away and deliver them to a utopian afterlife. Blending magical realism, science fiction, history, and comic-book fantasy, The Mexican Flyboy swoops readers from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the vineyards of Northern California, from Ethel Rosenberg’s execution to Joan of Arc’s pyre, in a tale of justice, trauma, regret, and redemption. The dead pass through the narrative in a parade at once heartbreaking and hopeful, among them Vincent van Gogh and Malcolm X, Ernest Hemingway and Amadou Diallo. But the living—Simon’s pregnant wife, Elena, his old friend Ezekiel Stein, prisoner Lenny Hudson—all throw doubt onto Simon’s story. Is Simon truly a “magus,” transporting martyrs to a shared community in paradise? Or is he just a man broken by loss, guilt, and the trauma of war, hopelessly lost in an illusion of his own making? Crossing genres and blending comedy with tragedy, Alfredo Véa imagines a world where we can rewrite our pasts and heal the wounds inflicted by history. Inviting comparisons to the work of James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges, Junot Díaz and Michael Chabon, this powerful book is like nothing else you have ever read.

Author : Lisa Reinicke
Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780999363751

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Football Flyboy by Lisa Reinicke Pdf

Does a good man’s life end at his death? The answer for daughter Lisa Reinicke was, “No.” Her father was known by many names: Buster, Bill, Billy, Dad, and the Football Flyboy. His deeds, no matter how small, should be passed down to family, friends, and anyone looking for inspiration, and life-lessons from one who worked, lived and part of the Greatest Generation. The Football Flyboy was young, newlywed and a pilot in WWII. He was a good man. One weekend morning, she determined that his spirit should not stay silent just because his mouth could no longer speak words. “I open my dad’s old air force footlocker - still solid, battleship grey, weathered, and a little rough from travel and age. His name is in white lettering on the front: First Lt William R Cannon.”​ What she discovered were yellowed envelopes bound in twine - hundreds of them - that her father had written to her mother. Letters written daily during the last year of WWII and received by his bride. Her daily letters disappeared - only three times during the year, did the “mailman” catch up with him and teased with just a few of the hundreds. “Before reaching inside, there was a feeling of the hands of time grabbing onto my heart, knowing that this was such a huge part of not only his life but my mom’s as well.” Meet Bill “Buster” Cannon, the Football Flyboy ... a good man with a good life who made a difference.

Author : Greg Tate
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501136976

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FLYBOY IN THE BUTTERMILK: ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICA by Greg Tate Pdf

From one of the most original, creative, and provocative culture critics comes an eye-opening collection of essays and tales about American music and culture. Under the guise of writing about a single subject, Greg Tate’s essays in Flyboy in the Buttermilk branch out from his usual and explore social, political, and economic subjects. Taking on a wide diversity of subjects from irony of the GOP recruiting Blacks to the crisis of the Black intellectual and the music Miles Davis, James Brown, and many others, Tate writes in a brave and distinctive voice that is angry, joyous, anxious, and funny. In every piece of this collection, Tate offers informed insight into where America is going and why.

Author : Jim Munroe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9635267282

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Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask by Jim Munroe Pdf

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063228253

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Digest of Decisions of the National Labor Relations Board by United States. National Labor Relations Board Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2064 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061558321

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Digest of Decisions of the National Labor Relations Board by Anonim Pdf