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A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
by Charles W. Dryden. 424 pgs.

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How does a black American prepare for a career in a profession traditionally closed to blacks? And how does he or she cope with the frustrations and dangers that subsequent experiences generate? A-Train is the story of one of the black Americans who, during World War II, graduated from Tuskegee Army Flying School and served as a pilot in the 99th Pursuit Squadron. Charles W. Dryden has prepared an honest, fast-paced, balanced, vividly written, and very personal account of what it was like to be a black soldier, and specifically a pilot, during World War II and the Korean War. Colonel Dryden's book commands our attention because it is a balanced account by an insightful man who enlisted in a segregated army and retired from an integrated air force. Dryden's account is poignant in illuminating the hurt inflicted by racism on even the most successful black people. As a member of that elite group of those young pilots who fought for their country overseas while being denied civil liberties at home, Dryden presents an eloquent memoir of the experiences he has shared and the changes he has witnessed.

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Contents

Foreword

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Part I

1: Dismissed! « July 1944

2: Why? « July 1944

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4: Off to Tuskegee

5: Aviation Cadets

6: Nest of Black Eagles April 1942-April 1943

7: Fighting 99th: Over There! April 1943-September 1943

8: Arrivederci, Sicily!

9: You'Re Not Ready!""

11: Camelot! February 1946-June 1949

Part II

12: Lonely Eagles ≫ June 1949-July 1950

13: Over There--Again!

14: Sayonara!

15: Guten Tag, West Germany September 1957-May 1959

16: Auf Wiedersehen! May 1959-January 1962

17: Twilight of a Lonely Eagle

18: Contrails

Epilogue

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
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Chappie: America's First Black Four-Star General: The Life and Times of Daniel James, Jr.
by J. Alfred Phelps. 366 pgs.

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Inspiring -- Good, Solid Biography -- Superb -- Meticulous

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: The Family and the Dream

Chapter Two: The Dream Begins

Chapter Three: Into the Clouds

Chapter Four: "They Shall Mount Up Their Wings like Eagles"

Chapter Five: "They Shall Run and Not Be Weary"

Chapter Six: "They Shall Walk and Not Faint"

Chapter Seven: Trouble in Old River City

Chapter Eight: Escalation

Chapter Nine Flash Point!

Chapter Ten: Zenith

Chapter Eleven: Confrontation

Chapter Twelve: Imbroglio

Chapter Thirteen Counterpoint

Chapter Fourteen: Towards Resolution

Chapter Fifteen: The Changing of the Guard

Chapter Sixteen: Trial

Chapter Seventeen: Healing

Chapter Eighteen: Everybody

Chapter: Nineteen Seasoning

Chapter Twenty: Synthesis

Chapter Twenty-One: Sawadi!

Chapter Twenty-Two: Battle Cry

Chapter Twenty-Three: Respite

Chapter Twenty-Four: Showdown at the Tripoli Gate

Chapter Twenty-Five: Star Track

Chapter Twenty-Six: Galaxy

Chapter Twenty-Seven Cheyenne Mountain

Chapter Twenty-Eight Star Crossing

Chapter Twenty-Nine: "This is My Country"

Epilogue

Appendix A

Appendix B

Endnotes

Sources

Index
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Still Flying High: Tuskegee Airmen, in Ebony
by Ebony. 2 pgs.

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American Greats ("All Blood Runs Red: The Tuskegee Airmen" begins on p. 252)
by Robert A. Wilson, Stanley Marcus. 322 pgs.

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This celebration of America's history and popular culture features original essays by writers such as John Updike, Peter Bogdanovich and Christopher Buckley.

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Contributors

A Note from Robert A. Wilson

A Note from Don Carty

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Preface

Common Sense 'tis Time to Part

The Automobile Self-Starter Kettering's Practical Solution

Barbed Wire the Devil's Hatband

The Baseball Diamond

The Berlin Airlift "We Stay in Berlin. Period."

The Birds of America Audubon's Great Idea

Black Baseball the Bumpy, Begrudging Road

The Brooklyn Bridge

Burroughs-Wellcome and Gertrude Elion

C-Span Where Content is the Star

Calder Mobiles

Carnegie Libraries

There is Only One Chez Panisse

The Chicago Defender Aiding and Abetting the Great Migration

Coca-Cola's Recipe the Greatest Secret Ever Kept, Told by the Man Who Keeps It

Coney Island

The Corvette like a Bat Out of Hell

Country Music: The Bristol Sessions

The Duke Ellington Orchestra

Edison's Invention Factories: "Stick-To-Itiveness"

The Elements of Style

Farm Security Administ Photographers

Fdr's Fireside Chats Holding Us Together

Freedom of Expression

Freedom Riders "We Are Prepared to Die"

The G.I Bill Helping Create the Middle Class

The Gettysburg Address

A Great Day in Harlem

Huckleberry Finn

The Iditarod the Last Great Race

Industrial Design "A Superior Sense of the Practical"

Industrial Light & Magic

Out in the Garage Where Inventions Begin

Keeneland Racing as It Was Meant to Be

The Kimbell Museum "The Client is Human in Nature"

Lend Lease "The Most Unsordid Act"

The Library of America

Life Magazine

M*A*S *H the Final Episode "Good-Bye, Farewell and Amen"

The Marshall Plan Essentials for European Recovery

Mohawk Steel Workers Dealing with the Fear

Making Journalism History

N. C. Wyeth's Treasure Island Illustrations

National Geographic Maps a Sense of Where We Are

Navajo Code Talkers the Century's Best Kept Secret

The New York Times

The New Yorker

The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 "A Hardful of White Dice Thrown Out Across the Prairie"

The Outermost House

The Paris Review Interviews with Writers Getting Black on White

The Pony Express

The Populists "Caught the Tentacles of Circumstance"

The Portable Faulkner

The Transfer of Presidential Power

The Pursuit of Happiness

A Romance with the Road "Light Out for the Territory"

Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?

The Skyscraper

The Smithsonian Institution Our Nation's Attic

The Snapshot

Sousa's Band "The Music Men"

Shooting Star the Spirit of Saint Louis

Sportswriting the Golden Age

Sun Records "When All Hell Broke Loose"

Surfing Oahu's North Shore "Eddie Would Go"

Television Situation Comedy: a Great Job

Travis's Letter from the Alamo "Victory or Death!"

All Blood Runs Red the Tuskegee Airmen

The Underground Railroad Following the North Star

Volkswagen's Campaign in America

Webster's American Dictionary "The Final Volley of Independence"

The Western

The Woman Suffrage Movement ''Failure is Impossible''

The Wright Brothers Concept of Genius

Yellow Fever "A Common Cause for a Disease All Too Common"

Yellowstone, Our First National Park

Your Show of Shows "A Legacy of Laughter"

West Point

Bibliography

Photo Credits

Acknowledgments

Index
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Victory at Home and Abroad: The Tuskegee Airmen Research Project and Seminar, in Social Education
by John Adelmann. 8 pgs.

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Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II
by John C. McManus. 435 pgs.

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In his study of aerial combat in World War II, McManus illustrates how the dangers facing the airmen might come from within the aircraft as well as without: piston engines and airframes, for example, were not reliable.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Who Were These Combat Airmen?

2: The Planes They Flew and the Clothes They Wore

3: People, Places, and Food -- Europe

4: People, Places, and Food -- the Pacific

5: Flying the Missions

6: Going Down

7: Thinking of the Enemy

8: Leadership in the Air

9: Morale, Deep Thoughts, and Tours of Duty

10: Breaking in Replacements

11: Brotherhood in the Skies

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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The Greatest War: Americans in Combat, 1941-1945
by Gerald Astor. 1033 pgs.

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With eyewitness accounts of battle, combat and the brutal realities of total war, The Greatest War is an insight into the feelings, thoughts and actions of many thousands of American men called to arms and sent to fight in conflict.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: This is Not a Drill!"

2: Preattak Maneuvers

3: The Philippine Defenses

4: Still Asleep

5: Early Engagements

6: Retreat

7: The East Indies

8: The Fall of Bataan

9: The Death March and Morale Missions

10: Final Defeat in the Philippines

11: At Sed and in the Air

12: American Airpower Concepts

13: Opening Offensives

14: Paratroopers, Raiders, Rangers, Marauders, Alamo Scouts

15: Torch

16: Grim Glimmers

17: Defedt

18: Tunisia

19: Husky

20: Island Ventures

21: Pointblank, Blitz Week, and Ploesti

22: Avalanche, Shingle, and Defeats

23: Solomon Finales, Galvanic, and Flintlock

24: Burmese Days and Skip Bombing

25: Big Week, Berlin, and Assaults and Batterings in Italy

26: Galahad's Joust, New Ventures, Minor Gains, and Overload

27: Overlord Overtures

28: Daylight at Omaha Beach

29: Getting off Omaha

30: Utah Beach

31: Hanging On

32: The Normandy Campaign Begins

33: Superforts and the Marianas

34: Breakout

35: Dragoon

36: Silent Service, Peleliu, Mars

37: Paris, Brest, and Market Garden

38: Winter Comes to Europe

39: "I Have Returned."

40: The Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Kamikazes

41: The Ardennes

42: Chaos

43: End of Seige

44: Causualties and Pows

45: The Battle for Manila

46: Firestorms

47: Over the Rhine

48: Operation Iceberg

49: Tennozan

50: Ie Shima and Beyond

51: Liberations and Victory

52: Penultimate Actions

53: Endgame in the Philippines

54: The Bomb and the End

55: After Action Reports

Roll Call

Bibliography

Index
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General Benjamin D. Davis 1912-2002, in Air Power History
by Air Power History. 2 pgs.

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Blacks in Aviation History, in Ebony
by Ebony. 3 pgs.

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