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Author : Andris J. Kursietis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9464249641
Author : James Crawford
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781411698093
THE AGE OF THE AVIATOR is the story of a unique period in history. It was a time when no one was yet certain of the potential of flight and when the task of testing its limits fell to a handful of eccentric and ingenious daredevils. This sweeping novel describes the century-long life of one such adventurer: someone who loved danger more than safety; a man of common origins who rose to uncommon heights and lifted up a generation of people with him.
Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974875
Across black America during the Golden Age of Aviation, John C. Robinson was widely acclaimed as the long-awaited “black Lindbergh.” Robinson’s fame, which rivaled that of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, came primarily from his wartime role as the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force after Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. As the only African American who served during the war’s entirety, the Mississippi-born Robinson garnered widespread recognition, sparking an interest in aviation for young black men and women. Known as the “Brown Condor of Ethiopia,” he provided a symbolic moral example to an entire generation of African Americans. While white America remained isolationist, Robinson fought on his own initiative against the march of fascism to protect Africa’s only independent black nation. Robinson’s wartime role in Ethiopia made him America’s foremost black aviator. Robinson made other important contributions that predated the Italo-Ethiopian War. After graduating from Tuskegee Institute, Robinson led the way in breaking racial barriers in Chicago, becoming the first black student and teacher at one of the most prestigious aeronautical schools in the United States, the Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical School. In May 1934, Robinson first planted the seed for the establishment of an aviation school at Tuskegee Institute. While Robinson’s involvement with Tuskegee was only a small part of his overall contribution to opening the door for blacks in aviation, the success of the Tuskegee Airmen—the first African American military aviators in the U.S. armed forces—is one of the most recognized achievements in twentieth-century African American history.
Author : Osamu Tagaya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782000730
The fateful attack on Pearl Harbor forced the Western world to revise its opinion of Japan's airmen. Before the war, Japanese aviators had been seen as figures of ridicule and disdain; yet the ruthless skill and efficiency of their performance in December 1941 and the months that followed won them a new reputation as a breed of oriental superman. This book explores the world of the Imperial Japanese Naval airman, from the zenith of his wartime career until the turning of the tide, when the skill and experience of the average Japanese airman declined. Cultural and social background, recruitment, training, daily life and combat experience are all covered.
Author : Rachel Sherwood Roberts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786482825
By 1915, pioneer aviator Art Smith was as celebrated as any movie star might be today. He thrilled audiences with his barnstorming feats, doing "death spirals," sky writing, "loop-the-loops," and night flights using phosphorus fireworks. He was a consummate showman and had he not died in 1926, his name probably would be familiar to most Americans. He glamorized and popularized aviation while testing the boundaries of aeronautical principles. As a boy he longed to fly before he had ever seen an airplane. His parents believed in him, and he was fortunate to have a best friend named Al Wertman who helped him build an airplane. His fame spread around the globe and in 1916, the Japanese offered him $10,000 for a series of exhibitions. His flying skills inspired a young Wiley Post to a life of aviation. After Smith's death, when Lindbergh flew over Fort Wayne and dipped his wings, he gave credit to the "Bird Boy" Art Smith. The story of this rising star in American aviation is one of adventure, romance, scandal and history. Using Smith's own autobiographical writings, the story is also a factual account of events in early aviation. The book includes photographs and postcards in Art Smith's own handwriting mailed to Al Wertman.
Author : United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Presidents
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113711407
Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1398 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Presidents
ISBN : HARVARD:32044121191092
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Author : Hoover, Herbert
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623768799
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : United States
ISBN : CUB:U183052280119
Author : Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763674106
The ghosts of war reverberate across the generations in a riveting, time-shifting story within a story from acclaimed thriller writer Tim Wynne-Jones. When Evan’s father dies suddenly, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his desk—a book his dad had been reading when he passed away. The book is the diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a small Pacific island in WWII. Why was his father reading it? What is in this account that Evan’s grandfather, whom Evan has never met before, fears so much that he will do anything to prevent its being seen? And what could this possibly mean for Evan? In a pulse-quickening mystery evoking the elusiveness of truth and the endurance of wars passed from father to son, this engrossing novel is a suspenseful, at times terrifying read from award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones.
Author : Barrett Tillman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1416585028
WHIRLWIND is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan—the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in 1942 to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, award-winning historian Barrett Tillman recounts the saga from the perspectives of American and British aircrews who flew unprecedented missions overthousands of miles of ocean, as well as of the generalsand admirals who commanded them. Whether describing the experiences of bomber crews based in China or the Marianas, fighter pilotson Iwo Jima, or carrier aviators at sea, Tillman provides vivid details of the lives of the fliers and their support personnel. Whirlwind takes readers into the cockpits and gun turrets of the mighty B-29 Superfortress, the largest bomber built up to that time. Tillman dramatically re-creates the sweep of wartime emotions that crews endured on fifteen-hour missions, grappling with the extreme tedium of cramped spaces and with adrenaline spikes in flak-studded skies, knowing that a bailout would put them at the mercy of a merciless enemy or an unforgiving sea. A major character is the controversial and brilliant General Curtis LeMay, who rewrote strategic bombing tactics. His command’s fire-bombing missions incinerated fully half of Tokyo and many other cities, crippling Japan’s industry while still failing to force surrender. Whirlwind examines the immense logistics and construction efforts necessary to support Superfortresses in Asia and the Mariana Islands, as well as the tireless efforts of engineers to build huge air bases from scratch.It also describes the unheralded missions that American bomber crews flew from the Aleutian Islands to Japan’s northernmost Kuril Islands. Never has the Japanese side of the story been so thoroughly examined. If Washington, D.C., represented a “second front” in Army-Navy rivalry, the situation in Tokyo approached a full-contact sport. Tillman’s description of Japan’s willfully inadequate approach to civil defense is eye-opening. Similarly, he examines the mind-set in Tokyo’s war cabinet, which ignored the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, requiring the emperor’s personal intervention to avert a ghastly Allied invasion. Tillman shows how, despite the Allies’ ultimate success, mistakes and shortsighted policies made victory more costly in lives and effort. He faults the lack of a unified command for allowing the Army Air Forces and the Navy to pursue parochial goals at the expense of the larger mission, and he questions the premature commitment of the enormously sophisticated B-29 to the most primitive theater in India and China. Whirlwind is one of the last histories of World War II written with the contribution of men who fought in it.With unexcelled macro- and microperspectives, Whirlwind is destined to become a standard reference on the war, on multiservice operations, and on the human capacity for individual heroism and national folly.
Author : United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover),Herbert Hoover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1402 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Presidents
ISBN : PSU:000023137783
Author : Air Corps. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127327190
Author : Herbert Adams Gibbons
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752405064
Reproduction of the original: The New Map of Europe by Herbert Adams Gibbons
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980-05
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UIUC:30112105112160