Such Men As These

Author : David Sears
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306819049

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In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat. Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history.

Author : David Sears
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306819049

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Such Men as These by David Sears Pdf

In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat. Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history.

Author : Steven Craig Reynolds
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438992983

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Where Do We Get Such Men by Steven Craig Reynolds Pdf

Gil Erb was one of the men who flew the Navy's first jet, the first carrier qualified jet, the first supersonic carrier qualified jet and the first Mach 2 carrier qualified jet. He participated in two combat tours in Korea and then became a test pilot. He flew 43 different Navy aircraft and suffered a dozen near death experiences. His humorous as well as tragic life episodes are all chronicled in this biography. Gil has, over the three year course of our interviews, enthusiastically opened up about his flying days. The thrilling training, combat and test piloting episodes are interspersed with the humorous after-hours tales that seem to come with the fighter jock turf. The chapters include anecdotes from some of the seven original astronauts such as Alan Shepherd, Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra; as well as Gil meeting Chuck Yeager and spending a day with Charles Lindbergh. Despite the name dropping, the author has tried to tell an honest "everyman's" story of what it was like to become one of the first pilots to fly jets on and off aircraft carriers and just how brave these men really were. The author also believes he has included in Gil's biography a little of how this kind of life typically affects a family. Dr. Peter Bartis of the Library of Congress' Veteran's History Project said the biography was "a beautifully documented history of Commander Erb." Dr. Dave Winkler of the Naval Historical Foundation has accepted the manuscript for inclusion in the Naval History and Heritage Command Archives and is forwarding it to several other Navy museums/libraries. Paul Gillcrist, the author of "Feet Wet", "Vulture's Row", and several other naval aviation novels said about the manuscript, "Once I started, I couldn't put it down. Congratulations! You have written a wonderful story."

Author : Robert N. Going
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1438288840

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Where Do We Find Such Men? by Robert N. Going Pdf

The general who supplies the American forces in Europe, the private who leads a company of POWs to freedom, the spunky heiress who becomes a spy, the dimple-chinned ensign who becomes a movie star, the doctor who sees through Rudolph Hess, the soccer team heard round the world, the airplane mechanic at Hickam Field, the National Guard boys who become men on Saipan, the grocer's son in the first wave on Omaha Beach, the Navy flier who opens the air field on Guadalcanal, the circus act that produces seven fighting men from the same family; all these and more do their part to win World War II, and all spring from the same hero-producing environs of Amsterdam, New York. It's time we said thank you. This book will make sure they are never forgotten.

Author : Joel Jacobsen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803276060

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Such Men As Billy the Kid by Joel Jacobsen Pdf

"A lively, lucid, compelling account of complex and confusing events about which scholars are still puzzling".--WASHINGTON TIMES. This story of greed, violence, and death has entered American folklore through the mythologizing of the career of Billy the Kid and also through a tendency to see the Lincoln County War as emblematic of frontier lawlessness. Illustrations.

Author : Stephen Benatar
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497693883

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Such Men Are Dangerous by Stephen Benatar Pdf

A vicar is disbelieving when two teenagers in his parish claim to have been given a message by the archangel Gabriel, but gradually changes his mind and decides he must do something about it.

Author : Lawrence Block
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1951939093

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Such Men Are Dangerous by Lawrence Block Pdf

"This goes through you like a dose of salts and stings like iodine." So said Virginia Kirkus Reviews of Such Men Are Dangerous when it first appeared almost fifty years ago, and since then this edge-of-the-chair novel hasn't lost a step. It's the story of Paul Kavanagh, a burnt-out ex-Green Beret who copes with what we've since learned to call PTSD by retiring to a dime-sized islet in the Florida Keys. There he lives a determinedly simple life, his human contact limited to a weekly visit to a storekeeper on a nearby island. Then George Dattner turns up with a plan. A CIA op, he has inside knowledge of a scheduled shipment of military goods from an army base in South Dakota. It's really nasty stuff--atomic grenades, lethal gas, tactical weaponry that could be a game-changer for a border war or insurgency. And he's got a buyer lined up. All he needs is a partner, because the way he's got it figured, hijacking the shipment is a job that the right two men can pull off. Kavanagh signs on. The operation is brilliantly planned and executed, but not without a few surprises along the way. But the greatest surprise of all is a shocking denouement that will hit you as hard as it hit readers half a century ago. This Classic Crime Library ebook edition of Such Men Are Dangerous contains as a bonus the opening chapter of the next book in the series, Not Comin' Home to You.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000105548840

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Albany Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z252725704

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Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexander Roberts,Sir James Donaldson,Arthur Cleveland Coxe,Allan Menzies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Fathers of the church
ISBN : UGA:32108002589177

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The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Lactantius, [etc.], Apostolic teaching and constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies by Alexander Roberts,Sir James Donaldson,Arthur Cleveland Coxe,Allan Menzies Pdf

Author : Thomas De Witt Talmage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : UOM:39015070285286

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The Earth Girdled by Thomas De Witt Talmage Pdf

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008888250

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The Complete Works by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1706 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11506555

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The Lancet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183015821348

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The Westminster Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02637911B

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Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo, ... by Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council Pdf