Download or read book To Authorize Appointment of Joseph F Carroll and Bernt Balchen as Permanent Colonels in the Regular Air Force written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (81) S. 3314.
Download or read book Subcommittee Hearing on S 1220 to Authorize the Appointment of Bernt Balchen as a Permanent Colonel in the Regular Air Force written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Kilday Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BERNT BALCHEN written by GLINES CARROL V and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1999-10-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Bernt Balchen tells the story of an aviation ground-breaker, the first person to fly over both of the poles, whose reputation and military career were undermined by one of his peers. Glines, a retired Air Force colonel and curator of the Doolittle Military Aviation Library at the University of Texas, Dallas, argues that Richard Byrd, a onetime mentor of Balchen, almost single-handedly destroyed Balchen's chance for a promotion to brigadier general and forced his retirement from the Air Force in 1956 at the peak of his technical expertise. This book reestablishes some of the facts that Byrd forced Balchen's publisher to remove from his 1958 biography, and relates in detail the Arctic flights and World War II operations that Balchen flew. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1933-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Frozen in Time written by Mitchell Zuckoff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on board survived, and the US military launched a daring rescue operation. But after picking up one man, the Grumman Duck amphibious plane flew into a severe storm and vanished. Frozen in Time tells the story of these crashes and the fate of the survivors, bringing vividly to life their battle to endure 148 days of the brutal Arctic winter, until an expedition headed by famed Arctic explorer Bernt Balchen brought them to safety. Mitchell Zuckoff takes the reader deep into the most hostile environment on earth, through hurricane-force winds, vicious blizzards, and subzero temperatures. Moving forward to today, he recounts the efforts of the Coast Guard and North South Polar Inc.—led by indefatigable dreamer Lou Sapienza—who worked for years to solve the mystery of the Duck’s last flight and recover the remains of its crew. A breathtaking blend of mystery and adventure Mitchell Zuckoff's Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II is also a poignant reminder of the sacrifices of our military personnel and a tribute to the everyday heroism of the US Coast Guard.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1928-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book To the Pole written by Richard Evelyn Byrd and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While cataloging Byrd's papers in 1996, Goerler (archivist, Ohio State U.) discovered the controversial explorer's diary and notebook which he frames with maps, photographs, a chronology of Byrd's life, his 1926 North Pole navigational report, and additional readings. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1933-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Download or read book The Byrds of Virginia written by Alden Hatch and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byrds of Virginia are among the most powerful and influential families in this country--and are also one of the oldest. The first Byrd ("William I") settled in Virginia in 1670 and was the founder of the Byrd dynasty that is vigorously represented today by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. Now, eminent author Alden Hatch, with style, wit and extraordinary scholarship, traces the history of the Byrds from 1670 to the present in one of the most engrossing and important biographies of an American family to appear in many years. -- Front book flap
Download or read book Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 2136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Arctic Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One issue each year devoted to the annual report.
Download or read book Explorer written by Lisle A. Rose and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Danger was all that thrilled him,” Dick Byrd’s mother once remarked, and from his first pioneering aviation adventures in Greenland in 1925, through his daring flights to the top and bottom of the world and across the Atlantic, Richard E. Byrd dominated the American consciousness during the tumultuous decades between the world wars. He was revered more than Charles Lindbergh, deliberately exploiting the public’s hunger for vicarious adventure. Yet some suspected him of being a poseur, and a handful reviled him as a charlatan who claimed great deeds he never really accomplished. Then he overreached himself, foolishly choosing to endure a blizzard-lashed six-month polar night alone at an advance weather observation post more than one hundred long miles down a massive Antarctic ice shelf. His ordeal proved soul-shattering, his rescue one of the great epics of polar history. As his star began to wane, enemies grew bolder, and he struggled to maintain his popularity and political influence, while polar exploration became progressively bureaucratized and militarized. Yet he chose to return again and again to the beautiful, hateful, haunted secret land at the bottom of the earth, claiming, not without justification, that he was “Mayor of this place.” Lisle A. Rose has delved into Byrd’s recently available papers together with those of his supporters and detractors to present the first complete, balanced biography of one of recent history’s most dynamic figures. Explorer covers the breadth of Byrd’s astonishing life, from the early days of naval aviation through his years of political activism to his final efforts to dominate Washington’s growing interest in Antarctica. Rose recounts with particular care Byrd’s two privately mounted South Polar expeditions, bringing to bear new research that adds considerable depth to what we already know. He offers views of Byrd’s adventures that challenge earlier criticism of him—including the controversy over his claim to being the first to have flown over the North Pole in 1926—and shows that the critics’ arguments do not always mesh with historical evidence. Throughout this compelling narrative, Rose offers a balanced view of an ambitious individual who was willing to exaggerate but always adhered to his principles—a man with a vision of himself and the world that inspired others, who cultivated the rich and famous, and who used his notoriety to espouse causes such as world peace. Explorer paints a vivid picture of a brilliant but flawed egoist, offering the definitive biography of the man and armchair adventure of the highest order.
Download or read book Full Committee Hearing on S 677 H R 2736 S 1220 H R 4692 S 1244 H R 1184 H R 3911 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 43. Considers miscellaneous legislation relating to the USMC, advances for clothing and equipment to cadets and midshipmen, the appointments of Bernt Balchen and Joseph F. Carroll as permanent colonels in the Air Force, Federal contribution to Alaska for civil defense and the administration of oath of civil defense employees, and participation of military personnel in the Olympic games, and the issuance of lapel buttons to survivors of deceased soldiers.
