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Author: Lewis Edwin Theiss Publisher: ISBN: Category : Aeronautics Languages : en Pages : 314
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In this adventure Jimmy Donnelly is a reserve pilot in the United States Air Mail Service searching for another mail plane that has disappeared with a good friend on board.
Author: Lewis Edwin Theiss Publisher: ISBN: Category : Aeronautics Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
In this adventure Jimmy Donnelly is a reserve pilot in the United States Air Mail Service searching for another mail plane that has disappeared with a good friend on board.
Author: Dennis M. Spragg Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 161234951X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 440
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On December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere over the English Channel the plane vanished. No trace of the aircraft or its occupants has ever been found. To this day Miller, Baessell, and the pilot, John Robert Stuart Morgan, are classified as missing in action. Weaving together cultural and military history, Glenn Miller Declassified tells the story of the musical legend Miller and his military career as commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band during World War II. After a brief assignment to the Army Specialist Corps, Miller was assigned to the Army Air Forces Training Command and soon thereafter to Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, in the UK. Later that year Miller and his band were to be transferred to Paris to expand the Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme, but Miller never made it. Miller's disappearance resulted in numerous conspiracy theories, especially since much of the information surrounding his military service had been classified, restricted, or, in some cases, lost. Dennis M. Spragg has gained unprecedented access to the Miller family archives as well as military and government documents to lay such theories to rest and to demonstrate the lasting legacy and importance of Miller's life, career, and service to his country.
Author: David K. Vaughan Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476688788 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 340
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Aviation books were a unique and prolific subgenre of American juvenile literature from the early to mid-20th century, drawing upon the nation's intensifying interest. The first books of this type, Harry L. Sayler's series Airship Boys, appeared shortly after the Wright brothers' first successful flight in 1909. Following Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, popular series like Ted Scott and Andy Lane established the "golden age" of juvenile aviation literature. This work examines the 375 juvenile aviation series titles published between 1909 and 1964. It weaves together several thematic threads, including the placement of aviation narratives within the context of major historical events, the technical accuracy in depictions of flying machines and the ways in which characters reflected the culture of their eras. Three appendices provide publication data for each series, a list of referenced aircraft and an annotated bibliography; there is a full index.
Author: Carrie Hintz Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135373361 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 257
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This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original essays discuss thematic conventions and present detailed case studies of individual works. All address the pedagogical implications of work that challenges children to grapple with questions of perfect or wildly imperfect social organizations and their own autonomy. The book includes interviews with creative writers and the first bibliography of utopian fiction for children.
Author: Wil S. Hylton Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101616253 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 278
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From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith—of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.
Author: Lewis Edwin Theiss
Author: Lewis Edwin Theiss
Author: Lewis Edwin Theiss
Author: Lewis Edwin Theiss
Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Author: Dennis M. Spragg
Author: David K. Vaughan
Author: Carrie Hintz
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Author: Peabody Institute (Danvers, Mass.). Library
Author: Wil S. Hylton