Author: A. E. Church
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Author: Alan C. Carey
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9780764311703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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We Flew Alone: United States Navy B-24 Liberator Squadrons in the Pacific: February 1943 to September 1944, is the first comprehensive book written on the operations of Navy B-24 Liberator squadrons in the Pacific War. In this first of two volumes, Alan C. Carey, the author of the Reluctant Raiders: The Story of United States Navy Bombing Squadron VB/VPB-109 in World War II, examines the formation and use of the B-24 Liberator by the United States Navy. From the birth of the first squadron and their deployment to Guadalcanal in early 1943 to the squadrons that participated in the Central Pacific campaign, every Navy Liberator squadron is discussed in detail.

Author: Robert de La Croix
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Beretter om atlanterhavsflyvninger, da dette stadig var en præstation inden for langdistanceflyvninger.

Author: Carlos M. N. Eire
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300274513
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton’s scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity. Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable María de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges readers to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural’s relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores—such as why and how “impossibility” is determined by cultural contexts, and whether there is more to reality than meets the eye or can be observed by science—have resonance and lessons for our time.

Author: George Sullivan
Publisher: Frederick Warne
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Describes fourteen flights by pilots who faced the unknown alone from Wilbur Wright, the first man to achieve powered flight, to Frank Whittle and Jacqueline Cochran, the first man and woman to fly a jet.

Author: Donald E. Dresselhaus
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Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Jane Gardner Birch
Publisher: Evangel Author Services
ISBN: 9781933858258
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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They Flew Proud crisply tells the story of the Civilian Pilot Training Program through the Army Air Force Cadets at Grove City College (PA.) and the Grove City Airport where the flight instructors (including Gardner Birch) trained the cadets to solo. Across the U.S., more than 435,000 men and women were taught to fly under the CPTP in pre and post WWII. In Grove City, the 8th Detachment?s 486 students received almost 5,000 hours of instruction, and then went forward to serve their nation in WWII.In Part 2 Gardner Birch, manager/instructor refocused the airport to teach civilians to fly after the CPTP was abruptly cancelled. He created five boards to record the 127 students and their solo dates (?44-?48). Narratives from these men and women retell of learning basic flying skills through many wonderful and humorous aviation stories. Those lessons learned in aviation?s early days prepared them for a smoother flight through life and created friendships and passions for flying and airplanes. Numerous photos and visuals add depth, feeling, and understanding to the expressive text and draw us into the special time when some of the greatest generation learned to fly proud.

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Languages : en
Pages : 848

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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1054

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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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