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Author
Publisher
Metro Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This book gives a complete overview of what it was like to fly a B-29 combat mission. Each crew position is featured in turn: the aircraft commander and copilot, the bombardier, the navigator, the flight engineer, the radio operator, the CFC top, left and right gunners, the radar operator and the tail gunner.
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Explore the role of the aircraft carrier and the warplanes that defeated Imperial Japan in some of the fiercest naval battles in history. On the strength of legendary aircraft, the US fast carrier task force overwhelmed the Imperial Japanese navy in a series of relentless campaigns which stretched from the Midway Islands to Japan's doorstep, Okinawa. With rare combat footage, veteran interviews, and interactive maps, the viewer is offered an unparalleled...
4) Wind flyers
Publisher
Nutmeg Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A young African-American boy tells about his great-great-uncle who was 'a wind flyer.' He describes his uncle's lifelong passion for aviation, from his boyhood attempts at flight by jumping off the roof of a chicken coop to his eventual career as a Tuskegee Airman. Uncle reminisces about the brave young Tuskegee wind flyers and occasionally takes the boy on a flight 'into the wind, against the wind, beyond the wind.
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