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Author: Peter B. Mohn Publisher: Children's Press(CT) ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 56
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Describes the annual show of the Confederate Air Force, a two hour, ten minute presentation of all the aircraft that helped the United States and its allies win World War II. The show includes re-enactments with enemy aircraft of the major air battles of the war.
Author: Peter B. Mohn Publisher: Children's Press(CT) ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 56
Book Description
Describes the annual show of the Confederate Air Force, a two hour, ten minute presentation of all the aircraft that helped the United States and its allies win World War II. The show includes re-enactments with enemy aircraft of the major air battles of the war.
Author: Peter R March Publisher: Osprey Publishing ISBN: 9781855327726 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Confederate Air Force has the largest and most colourful fleet of warbirds in the world. The US Navy Air museum was not established until 1962. This photographic book features Corsairs, Mustangs, B-17s and B-29s, all in their correct period colours.
Author: Stephen Lee McFarland Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 96
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Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.
Author: Burke Davis Publisher: Coward Mc Cann ISBN: 9780698203723 Category : Balloon ascensions Languages : en Pages : 45
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Recounts the brief and near-disastrous history of the balloon created by the Confederate army to spy on Federal troops who had used the same means to observe Southern troop movements.
Author: Bill Baldwin Publisher: Motorbooks International ISBN: 9780929726007 Category : Airplanes, Military Languages : en Pages : 61
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* The origins of the Confederate Air Force date back to the purchase of a surplus Curtiss P-40 Warhawk by Lloyd Nolen, a former World War II Army Air Corps flight instructor, in 1951. In 1957, Nolen & four friends purchased a P-51 Mustang, each sharing in the $2,500 cost of the aircraft. With the purchase of this Mustang, known as "Old Red Nose," the group now known as the Confederate Air Force was unofficially founded. * Today, the Confederate Air Force is comprised of just under 8,000 members, several hundred of whom serve as pilots & flight or maintenance crew members committed to preserving World War II American aviation heritage. The year 1991 marked the beginning of a new era for the CAF with the opening of the new Midland headquarters & museum, with better facilities to preserve the CAF fleet, which now numbers 140 aircraft, for generations to come. * The CAF is an all-volunteer organization, made up of members from all walks of life. Privately funded & totally self-supporting, the non-profit, tax-exempt group is dedicated to preserving the military aviation heritage of World War II.
Author: Peter B. Mohn
Author: Peter B. Mohn
Author: Confederate Air Force
Author: Confederate Air Force
Author: Peter R March
Author: Stephen Lee McFarland
Author: Burke Davis
Author: Confederate Air Force
Author: 
Author: Bill Baldwin
Author: Confederate Air Force