Author: Laurance F. SaffordPublisher:
ISBN: 9781888962208
Category : Women air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Earhart's Flight Into Yesterday
Author: Laurance F. SaffordPublisher:
ISBN: 9781888962208
Category : Women air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Amelia Earhart
Author: John BurkePublisher: Young Voyageur
ISBN: 0760354383
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Amelia Earhart, one of the most famous aviators in history, earned glory and celebrity in a profession dominated by men. She took her first flying lesson in 1920 and within two years had established a world altitude record. More records followed, and in 1932 Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1937, on a leg of what was planned as an effort to fly around the world, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Her disappearance remains one of aviation's greatest mysteries. Book jacket.
The Earhart Enigma
Author: Dave HornerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1455617881
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Florida Book Awards Silver Medal Winner: New answers to one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century. What really happened to Amelia Earhart? Since Earhart and her navigator disappeared during their around-the-world flight attempt in 1937, the world has searched in vain for an answer to this question. The culmination of thirteen years of research into this tantalizing mystery, The Earhart Enigma brings to life Earhart’s final days in an attempt to reconstruct what exactly took place. Offering candid assessments of prevailing theories about Earhart’s fate, Dave Horner marshals evidence from a variety of sources, proving that Earhart was neither lost at sea nor wrecked on Nikumaroro, where many search expeditions have failed to deliver concrete results. Integrating information garnered from numerous interviews, Pacific Islander folklore, and US and Japanese military documents, Horner argues instead that Earhart ventured north of her intended destination in search of a place to land her Lockheed Electra. Blending drama, mystery, and shocking revelations with the steady balance of an objective investigator, Horner’s findings provide a definitive answer to this fascinating riddle, based on firsthand accounts from Marshall Islanders and other powerful evidence.
Pearl Harbor Countdown
Author: Steely, SkipperPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455610181
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Purdue University
Author: U.S. Navy Codebreakers, Linguists, and Intelligence Officers against Japan, 1910-1941
Author: Steven E. MaffeoPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442255641
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented techniques, procedures, and equipment from scratch, not only allowing the United States to hold its own in the Pacific despite the loss of most of its Fleet at Pearl Harbor, but also laying the foundation of today’s intelligence methods and agencies. One-hundred years ago, in what was clearly an unsophisticated pre-information era, naval intelligence (and foreign intelligence in general) existed in rudimentary forms almost incomprehensible to us today. Founded in 1882, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)—the modern world’s “oldest continuously operating intelligence agency”—functioned for at least its first forty years with low manning, small budgets, low priority, and no prestige. The navy’s early steps into communications intelligence (COMINT), which included activities such as radio interception, radio traffic analysis, and cryptology, came with the 1916 establishment of the Code and Signals Section within the navy’s Division of Communications and with the 1924 creation of the “Research Desk” as part of the Section. Like ONI, this COMINT organization suffered from low budgets, manning, priority, and prestige. The dictionary focuses on these pioneers, many of whom went on, even after World War II, to important positions in the Navy, the State Department, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency. It reveals the work and innovations of well and lesser-known individuals who created the foundations of today’s intelligence apparatus and analysis.
Amelia
Author: Donald M. GoldsteinPublisher: Potomac Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Much more than an investigation of Amelia's disappearance, this intimate biography describes a compelling young woman who rejected society's traditional female role to pursue an exciting, path-breaking career, and who overcame the stigma such independence brought her. Amelia includes more than thirty photographs, some never before published.
Tune in Yesterday
Author: John DunningPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Descriptions of the plots and characters of the most popular radio shows are included as well as basic information on schedules, writers, sponsors, and performers. In alphabetical order.
Amelia
Author: Donald M. GoldsteinPublisher: Potomac Books
ISBN: 9781597970952
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes ten rivalries that help define college football. Includes the scores of all games, profiles of legendary participants, and memorable events.
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