Walt Perry

Author : Walter J. Perry
Publisher : Wilderness Associates
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0964716720

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Walt Perry by Walter J. Perry Pdf

Author : Joey Maddox
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462886296

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The Great Rat Race for Europe by Joey Maddox Pdf

The Great Rat Race for Europe: Stories of the 357th Fighter Group (Sortie One) tells the true stories of the Yoxford Boys of the 357th Fighter Group; arguably the best Army Air Force fighter group in the European Theater during World War Two. Aces Kit Carson, Bud Anderson, Johnny England, Pete Peterson, Chuck Yeager and others from this elite group of "tigers" eventually became famous after the war, while other Yoxford Boys just melted back into the scenery that was the American post war years. Those were the lucky ones as scores of these brave, young American lads flying their P-51 Mustangs into combat against the Luftwaffe never saw home again as the result of this epic air war over Europe. Their stories are all here including Leonard "Kit" Carson's account of The Great Rat Race which helped to break the back of the Luftwaffe (from his fantastic book Pursue and Destroy), the strange and sad end of decorated fighter ace Dittie Jenkins who safely returned from his last mission against the Nazis only to be killed while celebrating with an impromptu air show over Station 373 at Leiston, and the first hand account of life in a Stalag Luft (prisoner of war camp) with Colonel Henry Spicer, the irascible commanding officer of the American section of the POW camp (and one-time 357th Fighter Group Commanding Officer) who drove the German officers to the brink with his rock solid spirit of rebellion and the love and admiration of his men. Fly into weather so thick that the ducks are walking with Pete Peterson, one of the leading aces of the Group, as he walks you through a hair-raising landing on Leiston Field with zero visibility and three inexperienced pilots on his wing. Then 357th fighter pilot Joe Shea recaptures the common boredom ridden hours and terror stricken moments faced by replacement pilots of the Group during their first combat missions, including Shea's account of his last encounter, eyeball to eyeball, with a German pilot in an Me-262 jet fighter as it slid over his wing and lined up perfectly in his gun sight. Relive the greatest (as well as the worst) days of the 8th Air Force's first long range Mustang fighter outfit in short stories written by the pilots of the 357th Fighter Group, their families, and this author in this collection of memories and tall tales of the famous Yoxford Boys.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1730 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498223

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Robert Perry
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 0595831443

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Dirty Money by Robert Perry Pdf

Dirty Money describes the origin of financial investigations of narcotics traffickers through four landmark prosecutions in Los Angeles. The House that Heroin Built tells of how a major heroin dealer's purchases of luxury items, including a San Marino mansion and several expensive cars, were used to prove he was the leader of a national organization and obtain a life without parole sentence. The Hunt for the Architect details how a small bank's reports of currency deposits helped identify and bring to justice an organization which derived more than $32,000,000 from heroin and cocaine. A Very, Very Honest Lawyer concerns the detection and investigation of a sophisticated money laundering service for narcotics traffickers run by a Beverly Hills attorney. The Grandma Mafia relates how a courageous banker helped uncover a multi-million dollar money laundering and cocaine trafficking operation run by middle-aged grandmothers. The recounting of these significant cases is told by former Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry, who supervised the investigations and represented the government at trial. Today, financial investigations are a major weapon in the federal government's continuing fight against narcotics. This important investigative technique originated in the cases described in this book.

Author : United States. Navy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435022441133

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Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps by United States. Navy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101493835

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General Technical Report PNW-GTR by Anonim Pdf

Author : Les Joslin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D027167672

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Ponderosa Promise by Les Joslin Pdf

Research interest in the forests of Oregon and Washington east of the Cascade Range can be traced back to 1897, when Fredrick V. Coville of the Division of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, reconnoitered the Cascade Range Forest Reserve to report on forest growth and sheep grazing there in an 1898 report. Subsequent forest survey in the late 1890s and early 1900s was stimulated by anticipation of the timber boom that would follow arrival of a railroad. In 1908, Gifford Pinchot's new Forest Service sent young Thornton Taft Munger to study the encroachment of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud.) on the more valuable ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws.) stands. By the end of the year, Munger was in charge of the North Pacific District's one-man Section of Silvics, which evolved to become the Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station in 1924 with him at the helm. The forest research effort east of the Cascade Range picked up speed with establishment in 1931 of the Pringle Falls Experimental Forest to research the ecologically and economically viable silvicultural systems that would convert the stagnant old-growth forests into more-productive secondgrowth forests. During the ensuing six and one-half decades, a small group of Forest Service researchers and their university counterparts working at the experimental forest and, beginning in 1963, the Bend Silviculture Laboratory, pioneered and pursued the practical silvicultural research that both led and responded to the evolution of their science.

Author : Robert H. Mohlenbrock,Douglas M. Ladd
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0809308487

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Distribution of Illinois Vascular Plants by Robert H. Mohlenbrock,Douglas M. Ladd Pdf

This new distribution listthe first since Winterringer and Evers (1960)brings up-to-date every vascular plant known to occur in Illinois as a native, naturalized, or escaped species, some 3,001 taxa of vascular plants within the boundaries of the state. There are 251 pages of distribution maps included in this book. The plants are arranged alphabetically by genus, and under each genus alphabetically by species. The nomenclature follows Mohlenbrock, Guide to the Vascular Flora of Illinois (1975). In addition, a list of synonyms applied to Illinois taxa by Fernald (1950), Gleason (1952), and Jones (1963) follows the distribution maps. Finally, in order to gain an understanding of relationships of the plants in the Illinois flora, all 3,001 taxa are arranged in a phylogenetic sequence at the end of the book. "

Author : Les Joslin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781499007688

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Life & Duty by Les Joslin Pdf

“The fact of being a citizen of the United States of America offers the opportunity—not the guarantee, but the opportunity—to live an extraordinary life,” Les Joslin writes in the introduction to Life & Duty, an autobiography in which he proves his thesis as the relives the first seventy years of his American adventure. He shares these years in twenty chapters that comprise this three-part volume. Part I covers his family heritage and early years from 1943 to 1967, Part II his U.S. Navy career from 1967 to 1988, and Part III his life in Oregon from 1988. From Part I, Chapter 5, Summer 1965 on the Toiyabe National Forest... That wasn’t the first time I’d dealt with an armed citizen, and it wouldn’t be the last. Some of the challenges of my fire prevention job had nothing to do with wildfire prevention but everything to do with the fact I was sometimes the only public servant around to handle a situation. It had to do with that sometimes gray area between official duty and moral obligation. The previous summer, on my way to Twin Lakes, I detoured to check the dump I’d burned a few days before. Suddenly, I heard shots, just as the Lone Ranger and Tonto did in the opening scene of almost every episode, and what I saw as I neared the dump scared me. A big, beefy, fortyish man standing next to a late-model Cadillac sedan was firing a high-powerd rifle.... He’d heard me coming, and turned as I stopped the patrol truck. He didn’t look particularly threatening. But there were serious unknowns. I didn’t know him. I didn’t know what he might shoot at. I didn’t know he wouldn’t shoot at me. From Part II, Chapter 10, November 1979 aboard USS Kitty Hawk... On November 28, I got up, showered and shaved, put on clean khakis as usual, and started toward the wardroom for breakfast. The usual scent of salt and jet fuel was in the air, and I had a lot on my mind. I descended two ladders to the hangar bay, only to be brought up short by bumping my head on a helicopter that wasn’t supposed to be there. A quick look around revealed seven more RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters that their HM-16 markings told me belonged to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron Sixteen, not part of the ship’s air wing. So that’s why the swing south to Diego Garcia! They’d been flown there, probably in C-5As, and had flown aboard last night. Had I actually slept through flight quarters? I forgot about breakfast, climbed the ladders back to the 02 level, and knocked on the door of the flag N-2’s office. “This isn’t going to work,” I said as he opened the door. “We can’t fly those helicopters into a city of five million hostiles and rescue fifty hostages.” “They don’t want to hear that,” he replied, and closed the door. From Part III, Chapter 15, Summer 1992 on the Deschutes National Forest As I walked toward the fire, I began to think. Am I doing the right thing? After all, I’m just a contract wilderness information specialist, not part of the fire organization. I hadn’t been to the Deschutes National Forest’s fire school. I didn’t have fire clothing. I didn’t have a fire shelter. Except for a canteen, I didn’t have any water. And I’d turned in my last red card—the fire qualification card that rated me as a crew boss—in 1966 when I’d left the Toiyabe National Forest to go on active duty in the Navy. That was twenty-six years ago! Should I be doing this? Sure, I answered my own question. I’d started out in the “old Forest Service” where everybody did everything. I’d done this many times before, in the days before fire shirts and Nomex britches and fire shelters. I’d had five fire seasons on the Toiyabe, been on a couple big fires. ... I knew this business. I knew how to keep out of trouble. About the time I resolved that little issue, I was at the fire....

Author : James D. Haywood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977115Q

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Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by James D. Haywood Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UIUC:30112053816549

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General Technical Report Southern Research Station by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert H. Mohlenbrock
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780809332083

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Vascular Flora of Illinois by Robert H. Mohlenbrock Pdf

"First edition published as Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois in 1975. Second edition published as Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois, revised and enlarged edition, in 1986. Third edition published as Vascular flora of Illinois."

Author : Julie Lindquist
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190286286

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A Place to Stand by Julie Lindquist Pdf

Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original contribution to the field. She examines how regular patrons argue about political issues in order to create a group identity centered around political ideology. She also shows how their political arguments are actually a rhetorical genre, one which creates a delicate balance between group solidarity and individual identity, as well as a tenuous and ambivalent sense of class identity.

Author : Ron Dale
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728346762

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Zaca Creek by Ron Dale Pdf

Zaca Creek is a fictional story about your family. Your ancestors either walked to America from Arctic Europe or migrated to America after 1492 explorers. Every person in the Western Hemisphere is an immigrant from Europe, Africa, or Asia . Zaca Creek is a story about American families. Your ancestors were a vital participant in American culture and history. Our knowledge of history is limited because science and facts are relatively new in the last five hundred years. Enjoy the journey from stone-age people to modern men and women using their enormous wealth and wisdom to help make the future a better place to live. No other person has ever existed exactly like you. Will you defend this democratic republic with the liberty to pursue life for your family? We are joined in God’s grand plan of living together. We live in a world of myths and reality.

Author : Edward T. Browne,Raymond Athey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813157573

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Vascular Plants Of Kentucky by Edward T. Browne,Raymond Athey Pdf

Kentucky has been a place of great botanical interest for many years. This comprehensive volume lists more than 3,000 plant species and varieties, with complete information on distribution in the state, and reveals the current condition of botanical knowledge on Kentucky flora.