Author:
Publisher: Coda Publications
ISBN: 9780910390002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Heart-warming, funny and now and then sad, oral history from the people of Raton (New Mexico) who lived their life to the fullest during WW II. Wonderful insights into the lives of those who built homes from adobe, married young and raised families of respect for their city, faith in our nation and courage to tell it all. Here is your doorway to an awesome world of success and happiness each of us may envy and be forever proud. So read on and enjoy lived history at its most revealing best.
Raton War Years
Author:
Publisher: Coda Publications
ISBN: 9780910390002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Heart-warming, funny and now and then sad, oral history from the people of Raton (New Mexico) who lived their life to the fullest during WW II. Wonderful insights into the lives of those who built homes from adobe, married young and raised families of respect for their city, faith in our nation and courage to tell it all. Here is your doorway to an awesome world of success and happiness each of us may envy and be forever proud. So read on and enjoy lived history at its most revealing best.
Publisher: Coda Publications
ISBN: 9780910390002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Heart-warming, funny and now and then sad, oral history from the people of Raton (New Mexico) who lived their life to the fullest during WW II. Wonderful insights into the lives of those who built homes from adobe, married young and raised families of respect for their city, faith in our nation and courage to tell it all. Here is your doorway to an awesome world of success and happiness each of us may envy and be forever proud. So read on and enjoy lived history at its most revealing best.
Raton
Author: Mike J. Pappas
Publisher: Coda Publications
ISBN: 9780910390699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Dozens of marvelous tales ranging from lifestyles in Raton's long-gone Red Light district to the lynching of Gus Mentzer, about nearby ghostly former coal camps that once hand thousands of residents and more of the City's vibrant history. And how about Pegleg La Josie, who managed a brothel and could dance up a storm on her one good leg. Or the Dawson mine disaster which buried 283 miners far underground. A title that everyone will thoroughly enjoy.
Publisher: Coda Publications
ISBN: 9780910390699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Dozens of marvelous tales ranging from lifestyles in Raton's long-gone Red Light district to the lynching of Gus Mentzer, about nearby ghostly former coal camps that once hand thousands of residents and more of the City's vibrant history. And how about Pegleg La Josie, who managed a brothel and could dance up a storm on her one good leg. Or the Dawson mine disaster which buried 283 miners far underground. A title that everyone will thoroughly enjoy.
Palm Beach County During World War II
Author: Susan Gillis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439652058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
During World War II, Palm Beach County was a beehive of activity. Beachgoers witnessed the destruction left in the wake of U-boat attacks and then helped rescue survivors and retrieve the dead. One of the first Civil Air Patrol units to hunt German U-boats operated from Palm Beach County. Morrison Field in West Palm Beach served as the take-off point for Army Air Corps planes destined for battle lines throughout the world. Boca Raton Army Air Field was the headquarters for training airmen in top-secret RADAR technology. The US Army, Navy, and Coast Guard used resort hotels for training sites and hospitals.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439652058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
During World War II, Palm Beach County was a beehive of activity. Beachgoers witnessed the destruction left in the wake of U-boat attacks and then helped rescue survivors and retrieve the dead. One of the first Civil Air Patrol units to hunt German U-boats operated from Palm Beach County. Morrison Field in West Palm Beach served as the take-off point for Army Air Corps planes destined for battle lines throughout the world. Boca Raton Army Air Field was the headquarters for training airmen in top-secret RADAR technology. The US Army, Navy, and Coast Guard used resort hotels for training sites and hospitals.
History of New Mexico
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Small Town, Big Secrets
Author: Sally J. Ling
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781475251944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"Radar won the war, the bomb ended it." Small Town, Big Secrets gives us a look at one of America's most important military bases during World War II--the top secret Boca Raton Army Air Field. On this base, troops learned how to install, maintain and operate the country's most important war-worth device--airborne radar. Small Town, Big Secrets retraces for the first time the development of the base, its impact on Boca Raton, the life of base soldiers and the development and impact of airborne radar in the war. Engrossing and thoroughly researched, this poignant history has gone untold until now. The story of the Boca Raton Army Air Field is at once a story of sacrifice and service by America's young servicemen and women, and a testament to the effort of a small community during World War II.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781475251944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"Radar won the war, the bomb ended it." Small Town, Big Secrets gives us a look at one of America's most important military bases during World War II--the top secret Boca Raton Army Air Field. On this base, troops learned how to install, maintain and operate the country's most important war-worth device--airborne radar. Small Town, Big Secrets retraces for the first time the development of the base, its impact on Boca Raton, the life of base soldiers and the development and impact of airborne radar in the war. Engrossing and thoroughly researched, this poignant history has gone untold until now. The story of the Boca Raton Army Air Field is at once a story of sacrifice and service by America's young servicemen and women, and a testament to the effort of a small community during World War II.
Construction in the War Years 1942-45
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Grimace of Macho Ratón
Author: Les W. Field
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
An ethnographic account of indigenous artisans in Nicaragua and the complex ways they have understood and constructed their own identity from the period of the Sandanistas to the present.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
An ethnographic account of indigenous artisans in Nicaragua and the complex ways they have understood and constructed their own identity from the period of the Sandanistas to the present.
Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Trail of Shadows
Author: Chuck Hornung
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476635889
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In the summer of 1930, two federal prohibition agents were murdered. The first died in a hail of buckshot on a dark street in Aguilar, Colorado. Six weeks later, the second agent and his vehicle disappeared on a sunny afternoon along a New Mexico state highway south of Raton. During their fifty-year search, the authors sought answers to why no one was ever prosecuted for these crimes. This is the first book to correlate the two murders, identify how and why they occurred, and name the parties involved and the roles they played. Drawing from first-hand interviews and National Archives files, this book lifts the shadows along the trail as the light of truth is shown upon this mystery. Two federal agents can now rest in peace.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476635889
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In the summer of 1930, two federal prohibition agents were murdered. The first died in a hail of buckshot on a dark street in Aguilar, Colorado. Six weeks later, the second agent and his vehicle disappeared on a sunny afternoon along a New Mexico state highway south of Raton. During their fifty-year search, the authors sought answers to why no one was ever prosecuted for these crimes. This is the first book to correlate the two murders, identify how and why they occurred, and name the parties involved and the roles they played. Drawing from first-hand interviews and National Archives files, this book lifts the shadows along the trail as the light of truth is shown upon this mystery. Two federal agents can now rest in peace.