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Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...
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In 1987, when she inherits a piece of land, Emma finds a small plane in disrepair and her great uncle's journal that tells the story of Livy Jones, the woman who piloted his plane when he fell ill, and, with new purpose, works to secure Livy's place in the aviation hall of fame.
184) Above and beyond
Publisher
Playmount Productions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary film that follows the true-life story of a group of Jewish-American pilots who, in 1948, become members of Machal and flew as volunteers from abroad for Israel in its War of Independence.
185) Stateless
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.
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Bold, reckless Nina Markova grows up on the icy edge of Soviet Russia, dreaming of flight and fearing nothing. When the tide of war sweeps over her homeland, she gambles everything to join the infamous Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on Hitler's eastern front. But when she is downed behind enemy lines and thrown across the path of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive....
188) The Purple plain
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his wife is killed during the Blitz, neurotic and suicidal Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his own death. Fellow airmen see him as hostile, incommunicative and prone to nightmares and anxiety attacks. But when Forrester's plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions to safety. As they cross the Burmese desert,...
190) A sister's courage
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"It's 1939 and the threat of war hangs over Britain. A spirited young woman, Raine Linfoot has always had an overriding ambition to take to the skies. Her hero, Doug Williams, teaches her to fly when she is just 17. With her pilot's license it seems as though the sky's the limit for Raine until war breaks out. Raine knows that her place is not at home and she is determined to assist the war effort by doing what she loves, but the Air Transport Auxiliary...
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Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history"--
Series
Library of America volume 351
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xx, 774 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 21 cm.
Description
"This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of three Americans who came of age fighting in the Pacific and who survived to tell their stories." --book jacket
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (1981): "Marine veteran E. B. Sledge bears unflinching witness to the horror and degradation of prolonged close-quarters combat. A mortarman serving in a front-line rifle company, Sledge survived thirty days of nightmarish fighting on the remote...
193) The long flight home
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September, 1940. German bombs fall on Britain, and enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. The two raise homing pigeons, and Susan's favorite is Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan. A Maine crop-duster pilot, Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. In the National...
194) Time twisters: Neil Armstrong and Nat Love space cowboys ;Amelia Earhart and the flying chariot
Author
Series
Time twisters volume 3 and 4
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3 hr., 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Neil Armstrong and Nat Love, space cowboys: The students of Ms. Maybee's class used to think history was boring, but that was before time started to get twisted! When a spaceship carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin inexplicably lands in 1869 Texas, cowboy Nat Love decides to trade in his horse for a trip to the moon. It's up to siblings Doc and Abby to untwist history and get these historical figures back where they belong.
Amelia Earhart and...
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiii, 238 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Catkiller 3-2 is a memoir of one of the pilots who flew low-flying, unarmed, single-engine aircraft in support of Marine ground units during the Vietnam War. The author was a part of the Army's 220th Reconnaissance Aircraft Company (RAC), which arrived in Vietnam in late June 1965 Because of the shortage of existing Marine Birddogs, the 220th was immediately reassigned to I Corps and came under the operational control of the Marines. The author details...
Author
Publisher
Willam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam?s fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster,...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington--and Hanoi--to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The fascinating biography of the maverick newspaperwoman, equestrian, aviatrix and intrepid adventurer Alicia Patterson, which follows her exceptional exploits through the first half of the 20th century, from her troublemaking days as the middle child of complicated parents to her successes as publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning Newsday"--
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