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Author: David Sears Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 030681904X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat. Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history.
Author: David Sears Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 145876026X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 714
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In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research-inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat. Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well-entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history.
Author: David Sears Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 030681904X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
Book Description
In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat. Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history.
Author: Robert N. Going Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781438288840 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 378
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The general who supplies the American forces in Europe, the private who leads a company of POWs to freedom, the spunky heiress who becomes a spy, the dimple-chinned ensign who becomes a movie star, the doctor who sees through Rudolph Hess, the soccer team heard round the world, the airplane mechanic at Hickam Field, the National Guard boys who become men on Saipan, the grocer's son in the first wave on Omaha Beach, the Navy flier who opens the air field on Guadalcanal, the circus act that produces seven fighting men from the same family; all these and more do their part to win World War II, and all spring from the same hero-producing environs of Amsterdam, New York. It's time we said thank you. This book will make sure they are never forgotten.
Author: Steven Craig Reynolds Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 143899298X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 254
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Gil Erb was one of the men who flew the Navy's first jet, the first carrier qualified jet, the first supersonic carrier qualified jet and the first Mach 2 carrier qualified jet. He participated in two combat tours in Korea and then became a test pilot. He flew 43 different Navy aircraft and suffered a dozen near death experiences. His humorous as well as tragic life episodes are all chronicled in this biography. Gil has, over the three year course of our interviews, enthusiastically opened up about his flying days. The thrilling training, combat and test piloting episodes are interspersed with the humorous after-hours tales that seem to come with the fighter jock turf. The chapters include anecdotes from some of the seven original astronauts such as Alan Shepherd, Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra; as well as Gil meeting Chuck Yeager and spending a day with Charles Lindbergh. Despite the name dropping, the author has tried to tell an honest "everyman's" story of what it was like to become one of the first pilots to fly jets on and off aircraft carriers and just how brave these men really were. The author also believes he has included in Gil's biography a little of how this kind of life typically affects a family. Dr. Peter Bartis of the Library of Congress' Veteran's History Project said the biography was "a beautifully documented history of Commander Erb." Dr. Dave Winkler of the Naval Historical Foundation has accepted the manuscript for inclusion in the Naval History and Heritage Command Archives and is forwarding it to several other Navy museums/libraries. Paul Gillcrist, the author of "Feet Wet", "Vulture's Row", and several other naval aviation novels said about the manuscript, "Once I started, I couldn't put it down. Congratulations! You have written a wonderful story."
Author: Stephen Benatar Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497693888 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 237
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A vicar is disbelieving when two teenagers in his parish claim to have been given a message by the archangel Gabriel, but gradually changes his mind and decides he must do something about it.
Author: Dennis L. Siluk Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781537373676 Category : Languages : en Pages : 120
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The book "Men among Men," the sequel to "In My Time," consists of sixteen short stories, four in English and Spanish. The stories date from 1916 through 2016 (one hundred years); in chronological form. These are unpublished stories to date, non-fiction in mode, crisscrossing the author's life, all, or most all dealing with men, dealing with men's issues, or situations. Such as the unforgettable "Oscar." Also, a story "Winter Houses" out of St. Paul, Minnesota (1957). One on soldiering, as in Basic Training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 1969. Two stories between 1970 and 1976 concerns West Germany. There is one story concerning the author's time in Vietnam, 1971. Also, a trip to Bali, in 1999. And the opening story, about his Grandfather's "Voyage from Grodno to: Elis Island" (1916). You will love the heartwarming story called: 'A Penguin Yarn'. And a more trying story out of Peru, called '...Guadalupe and Little Coyote, ' tells of the hardships of immigrants. Also, there are two stories, one on Chile, and the other one in Argentina. The last climatic tier being in poetic prose, 'A Darkness' concerns men unwilling to open their minds to God's calling. All are remarkably expressed. Within the bulk of these stories, Chick Evens is Dr. Dennis L. Siluk's pseudonym.
Author: Joel Jacobsen Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803276062 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
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"A lively, lucid, compelling account of complex and confusing events about which scholars are still puzzling".--WASHINGTON TIMES. This story of greed, violence, and death has entered American folklore through the mythologizing of the career of Billy the Kid and also through a tendency to see the Lincoln County War as emblematic of frontier lawlessness. Illustrations.
Author: Lawrence Block Publisher: ISBN: 9781951939090 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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"This goes through you like a dose of salts and stings like iodine." So said Virginia Kirkus Reviews of Such Men Are Dangerous when it first appeared almost fifty years ago, and since then this edge-of-the-chair novel hasn't lost a step. It's the story of Paul Kavanagh, a burnt-out ex-Green Beret who copes with what we've since learned to call PTSD by retiring to a dime-sized islet in the Florida Keys. There he lives a determinedly simple life, his human contact limited to a weekly visit to a storekeeper on a nearby island. Then George Dattner turns up with a plan. A CIA op, he has inside knowledge of a scheduled shipment of military goods from an army base in South Dakota. It's really nasty stuff--atomic grenades, lethal gas, tactical weaponry that could be a game-changer for a border war or insurgency. And he's got a buyer lined up. All he needs is a partner, because the way he's got it figured, hijacking the shipment is a job that the right two men can pull off. Kavanagh signs on. The operation is brilliantly planned and executed, but not without a few surprises along the way. But the greatest surprise of all is a shocking denouement that will hit you as hard as it hit readers half a century ago. This Classic Crime Library ebook edition of Such Men Are Dangerous contains as a bonus the opening chapter of the next book in the series, Not Comin' Home to You.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780365020912 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 596
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Excerpt from Men of Our Times, or Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators; Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheri IN these sketches of some of the leading public men of our times, the editor professes to give such particulars of their lives, and such only, as the public have a right to know. Every such man has two lives, his public and his private one. The one becomes fairly the property of the public, in virtue of his having been connected with events in which every one has a Share of interest; but the other belongs exclusively to himself, his family, and his intimate friends, and the public have no more right to discuss or pry into its details than they have into those of any other private individual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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