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A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
Book by Charles W. Dryden; University of Alabama Press, 1997
Subjects: African American Air Pilots--Biography, Dryden, Charles W--(Charles Walter), Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.), United States--Army Air Forces--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations, American, World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American
...Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48- 1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dryden, Charles W. Charles Walter A-train : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman / Charles W. Dryden; with a foreword by Benjamin O. Davis...
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In My Sights: The Memoir of a P-40 Ace
Book by James B. Morehead; Presidio Press, 1997
Subjects: Fighter Pilots--United States--Biography, Morehead, James B--(James Bruce), United States--Army Air Forces--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations, American, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American
...huffy Southwest Pacific Theater of Operations about having to wait. Though I enjoyed...West Coast. This, of course, meant war for me. Back at Hamilton Field...us. The driver asked if we were Americans. We replied that we were. He said...place now. He said that before 1939, when New Zealand volunteered to...upset their way of life with old world distrust and grasping. He said the...Wagner, Americas first Ace of World War No. 2, and some more of the boys...they try to make us believe the American planes with experienced pilots are...means anything toward ending the war, it is hard to...intelligence sources reported to the American forces that native tribesmen had...
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Women Pilots of World War II
Book by Jean Hascall Cole; University of Utah Press, 1995
Subjects: Women Air Pilots--United States--Biography, Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)--Biography, Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)--History, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations, American
...Robinson, and Susan Clarke, of Class 44-W-2, and to the thirty-five other WASPs...affirmed by their commanding officer, Col. Charles B. Root, when he was interviewed by the...source indicated. Assumed author is Capt. Walter Walter, Ferrying Division Historical Officer...
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United States Army Logistics: The Normandy Campaign, 1944
Book by Steve R. Waddell; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: United States--Army--Supplies And Stores--History--20th Century, United States--Army--Transportation--History--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy, World War, 1939-1945--Logistics--United States
...Archives, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, and the United States Military History Institute have all been most helpful...organizations handled the day-to-day support of their respective forces. Responsible for seeing that the American Army in France received all the supplies and services necessary...headquarters in London. Major General James Chaney, an Air Corps officer who had observed the Royal Air Force during...
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Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II
Book by John C. McManus; Presidio Press, 2000
Subjects: Airmen--United States--History--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations, American, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American
...United States of America To Charles W. Johnson, My mentor and friend...from the skies in 1944 and 1945. By the end of the war, the Army Air Force used...it was the best all-around American fighter of the war: "While...stories in American weaponry in World War II. American medium bombers...not least in the American aerial arsenal were the heavy bombers...
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Wakes of War: Contrails and the Rise of Air Power, 1918-1945 Part II-The Air War over Europe, 1939-1945
Journal article by Ronald R. Baucom; Air Power History, Vol. 54, 2007
Subjects: Air warfare--History, Airplanes, Military--History, Europe--Military aspects, Military airplanes--History, World War II, 1939-1945
...artists like Paul Nash, Richard Eurich, and Walter Monnington. (38) It is not surprising...advantage in their memoirs. For example, Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager claimed that he and his...Arnolds World War H Diaries, ed. John W. Huston, Vol. I (Maxwell Air Force Base...
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Stalin's Falcons: The 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment
Journal article by Reina Pennington; Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, 2000
Subjects: Air pilots, Military--History, Women air pilots--History, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations
...the war; she shot down a German aircraft and flew the American P-39 and the British Spitfire. But after the war, she says, "it came to who should retire. It was not...wartime pamphlets about women in the war, wrote in March 1945, "in the Red Army ... women very energetically showed...Steven J. Zaloga, "Soviet Air Defense Radar in the Second World War," Journal of Soviet Military Studies 2.3 (1988...Improved Radio Communications for Radar Support Air Operations in the Great Patriotic War," Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal...Death, 184. (136) Gregory Malloy Smith, "The Impact of World War II on women, family life, and mores in Moscow, 1941-1945," PhD dissertation, Stanford, 1989, 133-134. (137...
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Allied Military Model Making during World War II
Journal article by Alastair W. Pearson; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 29, 2002
Subjects: Military miniatures, United Kingdom. Army, World War II, 1939-1945
...factor in providing sufficient intelligence for the armed forces. Even so, air photos were notoriously difficult to interpret by untrained...Force Low detail, vertical (most theatres) or Army Group level exaggeration exceeds 3...War H. London, U.K.: Parkgate Books. Stine, G. E. 1970. United States national report on automation in cartography 1970. Prepared...
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Emerging Air Power: The World War II Era
Journal article; Air Power History, Vol. 54, 2007
Subjects: Technology and war--Evaluation, United States. Air Force--Appreciation, United States. Air Force--Officials and employees, World War II, 1939-1945--Evaluation
...from Harvard to go over and assist the brand new Eighth Air Force in statistical control. He went over as a civilian...with the Atomic Bomb looming in the background that the forces that some did not want LeMay to finish burning out Japan...groups down there, got it. And when "Killer" returned to the States he was under LeMay; and unfortunately, he brought his girlfriend...becoming a pilot, and grew up to be one of the best the United States ever produced. But that wasnt his entire story--General...Enlisted Reserve October 26, 1942 and as a cadet entered the Army Air Corps Pilot Training in November. He earned his silver...
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Any Place, Any Time, Any Where: The 1st Air Commando Group in World War Ii
Journal article by William T. Y'Blood; Air Power History, Vol. 48, 2001
Subjects: Air power--History, Air warfare, Arnold, Henry H.--Innovations, World War II, 1939-1945
...which joined the 1st in Burma in late 1944, and the 3d, which operated in the Philippines beginning in January 1945. But that was all. When the war ended, the three groups were swiftly inactivated, to the delight of some skeptics who had never conceived the...mind, is to get an old one out." 14 Yet, the new idea of unconventional units organized to carry out special operations that was lit by the World War II Air Commandos did not die. Its flames flickered and ebbed over the years, but they kept burning. Others...II Air Commando groups. NOTES This article is based on a talk the author gave on October 5, 2000, to the American Branch of the Burma Star Association. The talk was based on the authors research in the Air Force Historical...p. 347. USAF Oral History Collection, AFHRA No. K239.0512-112J. (2.) Ibid. (3.) Gen. H. H. Arnold, "The Aerial Invasion of Burma." National Geographic Magazine 86: No. 2 (Aug. 1944), p. 130. (4.) Lowell Thomas. Back to...
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The Soviet Air Force versus the Luftwaffe: A.D.Harvey Assesses the Role of the Soviet Air Force in the Defeat of Nazism
Magazine article by A.D. Harvey; History Today, Vol. 52, January 2002
Subjects: Air forces--Russia, Aircraft industry--Russia, Germany--History, National socialism--Military aspects, Russia--Military aspects, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations
...Worm War II: the Official History originally published by the Ministry of Defence of the USSR. ed. Ray Wagner (David Charles, 1974); Hans D. Seidl, Stalins Eagles: an Illustrated Study of the Soviet Aces of World War II Korea (Schiffer, 1998...
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Hiroshima Then and Now
Magazine article by William Sloane Coffin; The Christian Century, Vol. 112, August 16, 1995
Subjects: Hiroshima, Japan--Bombings, Soldiers--Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations
...liaison officer with the Red Army, first in Czechoslovakia and...MacArthur, Eisenhower and Air Force Commander "Hap" Arnold...decent people against evil forces was morally acceptable. To...the deterrence, when to save American lives apparently excuses any...the saturation bombings of World War II, and especially the bombings...today in a far saner and safer world. William Sloane Coffin...
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Tempting Providence: The Bombing of Monte Cassino
Magazine article by David Colvin, Richard Hodges; History Today, Vol. 44, February 1994
Subjects: Italy--History, Monte Cassino (Benedictine monastery)--Siege, 1944, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations
...but outlived the new Italian states policy to suppress the monasteries...Clark, Commander of the 5th Army, recorded bitterly in his...black earth leaped into the air from the summit. Just before...Hitler to call a truce from the Americans so the abbot and his party...now scattered all over the world, must have felt in hearing...to destroy. So began the war of words which, via countless...W.S. Churchill, The Second World War, Volume V, Closing the Ring...
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How the United States Reversed Its Policy on Bombing Civilians
Magazine article by Sherwood Ross; The Humanist, Vol. 65, July 2005
Subjects: Atrocities, Bombings, Civilian casualties, Civilians--Crimes against, Military policy, United States--Military policy, War crimes, World War II, 1939-1945
...taken, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal wrote the following day: "I...cities. Referring to the bombing of Tokyo on March 9, reporter W. H. Lawrence wrote, "It marked the first all-out effort to...
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Victory at Sea: Recent Movies ... Have Vididly Depicted the Face of Land Battle in the Second World War, but the Story of the American War Is Incomplete without the Sweep and Strategic Stakes of the War at Sea
Magazine article by David M. Kennedy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, March 1999
Subjects: Air warfare, Japan--History, Japanese history, Naval warfare, World War II, 1939-1945
...fight. THE WARS END NOR had the United States. After brutal battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the first half of 1945, battles that consumed the lives of almost 19,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, and Marines, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6. Eight days later the war was over. The atomic bomb was of course the wars most revolutionary scientific invention. As it unlatched from its bomb bay on that fateful August morning, it was on its way to ending the Second World War even as it was opening a new chapter in the history of warfare. But the great nuclear blast that obliterated...up weapons of mass destruction against civilian populations had long since been violently breached--in the Allied aerial attacks on European cities, and even more wantonly in the systematic firebombing of Japan. On January 7, 1945...
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A Fighter Pilot's Lofty War Record: Gabreski Is Country's Top Gun
Newspaper article by Christian Dejohn; The Washington Times, April 26, 1997
...61st Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, U. S. Eighth Air Force. Somehow it was poetic justice that he would also be...name) began civilian flying lessons. He left college for the Army Air Corps in July 1940 and became a fighter pilot a year later...eighth jet ace on April Fools Day, 1952. After his return to the States, he traveled to the White House for a visit with President...
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Liverpool's Crucial Wartime Role; without the Sailors, Shipyard Workers and Civilians of Merseyside, Britain Would Not Have Won the War, Reports Peter Elson in Association with LIVERPOOL
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 18, 2007
...very darkest days of attack by Nazi Germany and the Axis forces. Some of the greatest Britons came to the fore at this time...and children killed in the Liverpool Blitz. The last German air-raid on Liverpool took place on January 10, 1942, destroying...convoys from North America and the South Atlantic to the United Kingdom and Russia, protected mainly by the British and Canadian navies and air forces, later aided by United States ships and aircraft. The German U-boats were joined by Italian...
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1950-1959
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 26, 1999
...renovation. THAT BLOCKHEAD! Charles Schulz begins publishing "Peanuts...jury acquits Roy Bryant and J.W. Millam of murdering Emmett...Library Book of 20th-Century American Quotations; the New York Times...Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II"; Our Glorious Century; the...
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Reluctant Warrior Who Was Soldier and Statesman
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 14, 2007
Subjects: Soldiers
...the subject of a splendid biography by Washington Post reporter...between field assignments and Army schools. Wherever he went...the Powell Doctrine the United States must make no military commitment...DeYoung, only after Iraqi forces began systematically looting...endorsed the use of U.S. air assets to contain the crisis...profile during the Gulf War, his articulate presentations...and admired figure to most Americans without regard to race...generals dry autobiography, "My American Journey" (1995). She leads...
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Victories in Three Theaters Make Pilot Worthy Model
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 4, 2003
Subjects: Bush, George W.
...Earth. Also, the presidents father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Jimmy Carter both make an appearance...by Jacquie Kubin/ Special to The Washington Times Korean War pilot Walker "Bud" Mahurin, from BBI Photo by Jacquie Kubin...
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Air Forces
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
AIR FORCES those portions of a nations military organization employing...Douhet and others, such as Gen. William Mitchell of the United States, fought for the intensive development of airpower and pleaded...United Nations Command effectively enveloped the North Korean army and later cut supply arteries to Chinese Communist troops...
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Laguardia, Fiorello Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...He spent his early years in Arizona with his father, an army bandmaster who had come from Italy to the United States. LaGuardia went to Europe while still a youth, and was...liberalization of the House rules. He commanded (1917) U.S. air forces on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia...autobiography (ed. by M. L. Werner, 1948, repr. 1961); biography by A. Mann (2 vol., 1959 65, repr. 1969); E. Cuneo, Life...
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Antarctica
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...consists of two major regions: W Antarctica (c.2,500,000 sq...in E Antarctica. In 1840 Lt. Charles Wilkes, leader of the U.S...suspended and then renewed operations; those that have been continually...Antarctic (1971); K. J. Bertrand, Americans in Antarctica, 1775 1948...
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Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...right was also manifest in the reorganization of the armed forces along disciplinarian lines reminiscent of the reign of...secret police , G. G. Yagoda, and to some of the highest army officers, notably Marshal Tukhachevsky . The terror...second wife. His son, Vasily, was an officer in the Soviet air force before his death in 1962. His daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva , defected to the United States in 1967. Denunciation At the 20th All-Union Party...Germany, Stalins Russia (2004); R. Service, Stalin: A Biography (2005). ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...
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English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Vanbrugh . John Dryden began as a playwright...Radcliffe , "Monk" Lewis , Charles Maturin , and others...Thomas Moore , and Walter Savage Landor . The...the comic operettas of W. S. Gilbert and Sir...a watershed in both American and English literary...in the Spanish Civil War. The experience left...pressing demands of World War II superseded these...


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