Weintraub, Beverly
Summary: "This is the story of the first women naval aviators and their struggles and triumphs as they earned their Wings of Gold, learned to fly increasingly sophisticated jet fighters and helicopters, mastered aircraft carrier landings, served at sea, and reached heights of command that would have been unthinkable less than a generation before. It is also the story of the legacy they left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.9 WEIBruning, John R.
Summary: "This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 BRUMurphy, Brian
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRANE, LEON MURBledsoe, Glen.
Summary: Describes the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels, their history, aircraft, maneuvers, and team members.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone High-Interest Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 797.54 BLEGladwell, Malcolm
Summary: "In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GLACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War GladwellHopkins, Ellen.
Summary: Describes the history, aircraft, maneurvers, and the future of the U.S. Air Forces' Thunderbirds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone High-Interest Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 797.54 HOPMcGaugh, Scott
Summary: "This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a single cable wrapped with a telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, photos and letters home, The Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin reveals every terrifying minute of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 MCGGreen, Michael
Summary: Introduces the AC-130H Gunships, their specifications, weapons, missions, and future in the Air Force.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone High-Interest Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.7464 GREMurray, Julie
Summary: "This title introduces the United States' newest military branch, the US Space Force! Readers will learn how the United States plans to protect the nation and the world from space. Amazing photographs from the US military complete the book. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dash! Leveled Readers, An imprint of Abdo Zoom 2021