Author: Eino Astere Luukkanen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Finland's third-ranking aerial ace recounts battle experiences during the Russo-Finnish "Winter War" of 1940 and "Continuation War", 1941-44.
Fighter Over Finland
Author: Eino Astere Luukkanen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Finland's third-ranking aerial ace recounts battle experiences during the Russo-Finnish "Winter War" of 1940 and "Continuation War", 1941-44.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Finland's third-ranking aerial ace recounts battle experiences during the Russo-Finnish "Winter War" of 1940 and "Continuation War", 1941-44.
Fighter Over Finland
Author: Eino Astere Luukkanen
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809496211
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809496211
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Look, Mom--I Can Fly!
Author: Robert Vrilakas
Publisher: Amethyst Moon
ISBN: 9781935354475
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
In the mid-1920s the sound of airplane motors would cause the entire inhabitants of author Robert "Smoky" Vrilakas' small Northern California village to dash outside to look up at the sky. Overhead would be a Ford Trimotor passenger plane droning off toward some unknown destination, a sight almost as awesome then as watching a manned satellite pass over in space today. The author, then a young boy, thought those who flew airplanes had to be super humans, far beyond anything he could ever even dream of doing. Later, in the midst of the Great Depresssion, Smoky Vrilakas' life took a sudden, sweeping turn. Six months prior to the December Pearl Harbor attack and at only 22 years old, Smoky was drafted into the army in preparation for an expected major war. Look, Mom-I Can Fly! takes you through the author's Army infantry training and his Army Air Corp flight training. You will share Smoky's experience in learning to fly the Army's top fighter airplane of the time: the P-38 "Lightning." In mid-1943 you will travel with him and 65 other P-38 volunteer classmates to North Africa and Italy. There, as a member of the famed "Hat in the Ring" squadron, you will accompany him on 51 combat missions against the German Luftwaffe and Italian Air Force in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. All of the combat missions carried considerable risk. Some came very close to being Smoky's last. Meet some of Smoky's fellow P-38 pilots and learn about the everyday life of a fighter pilot of that era. This story confirms that determination and the will to meet a goal are the primary ingredients for success in any endeavor.
Publisher: Amethyst Moon
ISBN: 9781935354475
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
In the mid-1920s the sound of airplane motors would cause the entire inhabitants of author Robert "Smoky" Vrilakas' small Northern California village to dash outside to look up at the sky. Overhead would be a Ford Trimotor passenger plane droning off toward some unknown destination, a sight almost as awesome then as watching a manned satellite pass over in space today. The author, then a young boy, thought those who flew airplanes had to be super humans, far beyond anything he could ever even dream of doing. Later, in the midst of the Great Depresssion, Smoky Vrilakas' life took a sudden, sweeping turn. Six months prior to the December Pearl Harbor attack and at only 22 years old, Smoky was drafted into the army in preparation for an expected major war. Look, Mom-I Can Fly! takes you through the author's Army infantry training and his Army Air Corp flight training. You will share Smoky's experience in learning to fly the Army's top fighter airplane of the time: the P-38 "Lightning." In mid-1943 you will travel with him and 65 other P-38 volunteer classmates to North Africa and Italy. There, as a member of the famed "Hat in the Ring" squadron, you will accompany him on 51 combat missions against the German Luftwaffe and Italian Air Force in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. All of the combat missions carried considerable risk. Some came very close to being Smoky's last. Meet some of Smoky's fellow P-38 pilots and learn about the everyday life of a fighter pilot of that era. This story confirms that determination and the will to meet a goal are the primary ingredients for success in any endeavor.
Fighter Pilot
Author: William M. Gaskill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897452038
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897452038
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Another Bowl of Kapusta
Author: Dianna M. Popp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418488376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Before there were frequent flyer miles, there was this. A rather haphazard, make-it-up-as-you-go aviation industry. Flight was a dangerous, exciting adventure that developed at a faster pace than could ever have been expected. Because the exploits of B. E. "Shorty" Fulton were extensively chronicled by the press for over fifty years (1925-1980) he serves as a microcosm of those years when he was probably in the right place at the right time, in parts of the country, he became a legend. "Shorty" had many eccentricities, both lovable and irritating. I hope I have brought that man and his times into focus yet leave his heritage secure.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418488376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Before there were frequent flyer miles, there was this. A rather haphazard, make-it-up-as-you-go aviation industry. Flight was a dangerous, exciting adventure that developed at a faster pace than could ever have been expected. Because the exploits of B. E. "Shorty" Fulton were extensively chronicled by the press for over fifty years (1925-1980) he serves as a microcosm of those years when he was probably in the right place at the right time, in parts of the country, he became a legend. "Shorty" had many eccentricities, both lovable and irritating. I hope I have brought that man and his times into focus yet leave his heritage secure.
Too Young to Die
Author: Bryan Cox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780091727413
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780091727413
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description