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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith. Smith is one of the most...
62) Tuskegee Airmen
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American combat pilots in US military history. Ride along with these brave pilots on the dangerous military missions that changed the course of history.
63) Tuskegee airmen
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book/Bolt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief look at the use of American Indian soldiers who used their native languages to communicate during World War II to prevent enemies from understanding what was being said.
Publisher
Choices
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The compelling story of the first African American military pilots who, in addition to fighting our enemies in Europe during WWII, had to fight against the racial inequality and discrimination they faced at home despite their great sacrifice.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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 children, placing them in an internment camp where they...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about Nancy Harkness Love, the first female to serve for the Army Air Force and instrumental in founding the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) in World War II. Perfect for readers of Fly Girl, Fly!: Shaesta Waiz Soars Around the World, Herstory or Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In a sensational tale of combat, and an unlikely friendship in the flak-filled skies above Germany, Frater chronicles the life of U.S. Captain Werner Goering, an exceptional American pilot who was also the nephew of Herman Goering, leading member of the Nazi party and Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The Freeman Field Mutiny, as it became known, would eventually...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced that supporting Chinese resistance against the continuing Japanese invasion would be crucial to an eventual Allied victory in World War II. Within two weeks of that fateful Sunday in December 1941, the American Volunteer Group-soon to become known as the legendary "Flying Tigers"-went into action. Audaciously...
Author
Publisher
National Writers Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The true story of Roland and Rodney Paulson, identical twins, for whom the Skunk River Valley near, Ames, Iowa, served as a basic haven of security. Not close with their siblings, their school years were spent as "two against the world." As the Great Depression gave way to World War II, the Skunk Valley philosophy went with them into the Air Force. As members of the same crew on the B-17 FUBAR, they became possibly the only twins to get away with...
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