The Wild Blue Yonder

Author : Allan T. Stein
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603445979

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Into the Wild Blue Yonder by Allan T. Stein Pdf

"Allan T. Stein idolized his uncle, a pilot in the Great War. So in 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, he left Texas A & M University for Lackland Air Field to learn to fly. By the time he retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1969, Stein had flown everything from BT-13s and B-24s to B-52s and C-47s. During World War II, he flew missions over China and the Sea of Japan, and by V-J Day, he had participated in eight campaigns and logged 347 hours in combat. Stein later spent one year in Vietnam as operations officer for the 360 TEWS (Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron), which used refitted C-47s to monitor and locate Vietcong units. He ended his career as inspector general of the Civil Air Patrol." "Stein considers himself to have been an ordinary airman, not a hero. But he was also a seasoned pilot and a conscientious officer with a strong sense of right and wrong. After a young pilot he had certified died in an accident, Stein made it a practice to fail all but the best candidates. He was just as disgusted with the corruption he encountered in the Civil Air Patrol as he was with the tendentious reporters he met in Saigon's Hotel Caravelle." "Although he met his share of cowards and scoundrels, Stein loved to fly and he loved the air force. He was the sort of officer his superiors trusted not to make mistakes, but he was not the sort to rise to high rank. What he offers here is an account of a typical career as an air force officer, complete with its frustrations, moral dilemmas, and the occasional harrowing experience."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Rob Morris,Ian Hawkins
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597977173

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The Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond by Rob Morris,Ian Hawkins Pdf

The complete history of a legendary World War II bomb group

Author : Jack B. Rochester
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627876186

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Wild Blue Yonder by Jack B. Rochester Pdf

Over 650 Vietnam War novels have been published, mostly dark tales from the war zone. In Wild Blue Yonder, Airman Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers goes not to Vietnam but Germany, straight into a military Catch-22. His assignment: writing stories for the Stars and Stripes newspaper that will never see print. Nate's adventure deepens as he and his fellow troops try to understand why they're there, the military mindset, and the massive social disruption roiling 1960's America. Existential, psychedelic, funny, and laced with rock 'n' roll, Wild Blue Yonder is the story of Nate's quest for personal and spiritual values while trying to learn the meaning of family, friendship, and the love of the girl he left behind.

Author : Travis Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566892414

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Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder by Travis Nichols Pdf

A picturesque story of modern love, old flames, and the long shadow of history.

Author : Nick Kotz
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : B-1 bomber
ISBN : UOM:39015020640275

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Wild Blue Yonder by Nick Kotz Pdf

Author : M W Arnold
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509237654

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Wild Blue Yonder by M W Arnold Pdf

Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Doris Winter is accused of stealing a valuable item from a famous Hollywood movie star, now a captain in the US Army Air Corps, after a dance at the air base in England where he's stationed. Gathering her close friends together, she's determined to clear her name. Ruth's POW son suffers a life-changing injury just as her own cottage takes damage in an air raid and Penny's estranged little sister unexpectedly turns up, having run away from school. Together with the ongoing thefts of items of clothing and surprise personal revelations, these all threaten to hamper their investigation. In spite of the worsening war situation, they must band together to rise above their troubles and prove love and friendship is worth fighting for.

Author : Dick Harmon,Steve Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1886110336

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Wild Blue Yonder by Dick Harmon,Steve Cameron Pdf

The soaring saga and official history of Brigham Young University football, what some people have called the Mormon Notre Dame.

Author : Audrey Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000001699556

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The Wild Blue Yonder by Audrey Thomas Pdf

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0304364665

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Wild Blue Yonder by Martin W. Bowman Pdf

Lavishly illustrated, this fascinating and entertaining volume transports you back in time to hear firsthand accounts culled from hundreds of diaries, letters, and interviews with veterans. These are the captivating stories of the American airmen and British civilians and service personnel of World War II. In 1942, when the U.S. forces arrived in England, the young Americans were puzzled, amazed, and exasperated by the mysteries of British speech, food, manners--and plumbing, and the British were equally surprised by American ways. From decorated pilots to British civilians who, as children, were entertained on U.S. bases, come stories of comic cultural misunderstanding and terrifying bomber missions over Germany. This unique adventure celebrates the courage and spirit of the U.S. 8th Air Force and the friends they made in Britain.

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743217521

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The Wild Blue by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World War II. The young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II fought against horrific odds, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with vivid detail and affection. Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys—turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B-24s—who suffered over fifty percent casualties. With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew thirty-five combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes. Many went down in flames. As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldiers from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue illustrates the enormous contribution that these young men of the Army Air Forces made to the Allied victory.

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743223096

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The Wild Blue by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

Examines the lives of the pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous missions during World War II.

Author : David Lubar
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429962698

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The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies by David Lubar Pdf

A girl doesn't have a date for the school dance—until her dad makes one for her in his lab. "Lily—meet Stitchy." A family enjoys a nice Thanksgiving dinner—until they are interrupted by a torrent of turkeys out for revenge. A princess meets a pea-brained suitor. And the battle of two red hot pepper weenies ends in flames. Critically-acclaimed author and master of the macabre David Lubar returns from a journey into the darkest depths of his brain with thirty-five more warped and creepy tales. And in the tradition of the three previous Weenie collections—In the Land of the Lawn Weenies, Invasion of the Road Weenies, and The Curse of the Campfire Weenies—he reveals the inspiration behind each story at the end of the book. Don't be a weenie. Read these stories...if you dare! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Melody Jue
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478007548

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Wild Blue Media by Melody Jue Pdf

In Wild Blue Media, Melody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based ways of knowing and reorients our perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment—a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is created, stored, transmitted, and perceived. By recentering media theory on and under the sea, Jue calls attention to the differences between perceptual environments and how we think within and through them as embodied observers. In doing so, she provides media studies with alternatives to familiar theoretical frameworks, thereby challenging scholars to navigate unfamiliar oceanic conditions of orientation, materiality, and saturation. Jue not only examines media about the ocean—science fiction narratives, documentary films, ocean data visualizations, animal communication methods, and underwater art—but reexamines media through the ocean, submerging media theory underwater to estrange it from terrestrial habits of perception while reframing our understanding of mediation, objectivity, and metaphor.

Author : Veit Erlmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000211047

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Hearing Cultures by Veit Erlmann Pdf

Vision is typically treated as the defining sense of the modern era and a powerful vehicle for colonial and postcolonial domination. This is in marked contrast to the almost total absence of accounts of hearing in larger cultural processes. Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense - from the intersection of sound and modernity, through to the relationship between audio-technological advances and issues of personal and urban space. As cultures and communities grapple with the massive changes wrought by modernization and globalization, Hearing Cultures presents an important new approach to understanding our world. It answers such intriguing questions as: Did people in Shakespeare's time hear differently from us? In what way does technology affect our ears? Why do people in Egypt increasingly listen to taped religious sermons? Why did Enlightenment doctors believe that music was an essential cure? What happens acoustically in cross-cultural first encounters? Why do Runa Indians in the Amazon basin now consider onomatopoetic speech child's talk? The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, offers a way into experience. All five senses are instruments that record, interpret and engage with the world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.

Author : Carlie Sorosiak
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062564016

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Wild Blue Wonder by Carlie Sorosiak Pdf

"It's the rarest author who can pull off laugh-out-loud hilarious, profound, and breathlessly romantic, all in the most sparkling prose. That shortlist includes Rainbow Rowell, Nicola Yoon, and now, Carlie Sorosiak."—Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days Last June, the summer camp Quinn’s family owns in Winship, Maine, was still a magical place. A place where wild blueberries grew no matter the season, a legendary sea monster lurked in the waters, and Quinn fell in love with her best friend, Dylan. Then the accident happened. Now it’s winter, the magic has drained from Quinn’s life, and she knows it’s her fault. But the new boy in town, Alexander, doesn’t see her as the monster she believes herself to be. As Quinn lets herself open up again, she begins to understand the truth about love, loss, and monsters—real and imagined. Perfect for fans of Morgan Matson, Jenny Han, and Jandy Nelson, this wondrous novel was proclaimed “a striking examination of love—of friends, of family, of self—as well as of grief” by ALA Booklist in a starred review.