Download or read book The Alamo Wing written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1951 2001 written by Victoria L. Lamfers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Heritage of Service written by Ann Krueger Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wings Over San Antonio written by Mel Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1910, Lt. Benjamin Foulois was ordered to Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas, with a used Wright Brothers aeroplane and a small contingent of enlisted men. His mission was to teach himself how to operate this primitive flying machine and begin demonstrating the practical uses it might have for the United States Army. This history is chronicled through in-depth captions and over 200 images as author Mel Brown tells the story of how San Antonio eventually became the cradle of military aviation. Mastery of the air would take time, equipment, and lives as the demanding flight path led from the early trials at Ft. Sam to the eventual establishment of four flying centers around the city. Working through trial and error, the aeronautic pioneers and first combat aviators convinced the military that the building of an American air arm was needed; thus the legend of the U.S. Air Force at San Antonio was born. Using many photographs never before published, the author tells the rich history of the air force bases in San Antonio, including Kelly, Brooks, and Randolph Fields. Also included are images of some of aviation's first heroes, such as Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and Clair Chennault.
Download or read book Wings Over San Antonio written by Mel Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1910, Lt. Benjamin Foulois was ordered to Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas, with a used Wright Brothers aeroplane and a small contingent of enlisted men. His mission was to teach himself how to operate this primitive flying machine and begin demonstrating the practical uses it might have for the United States Army. This history is chronicled through in-depth captions and over 200 images as author Mel Brown tells the story of how San Antonio eventually became the cradle of military aviation. Mastery of the air would take time, equipment, and lives as the demanding flight path led from the early trials at Ft. Sam to the eventual establishment of four flying centers around the city. Working through trial and error, the aeronautic pioneers and first combat aviators convinced the military that the building of an American air arm was needed; thus the legend of the U.S. Air Force at San Antonio was born. Using many photographs never before published, the author tells the rich history of the air force bases in San Antonio, including Kelly, Brooks, and Randolph Fields. Also included are images of some of aviation's first heroes, such as Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and Clair Chennault.
Download or read book Air Reserve Forces Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1949-10 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Air Reservist written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Military Aviation in San Antonio written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Citizen Airman written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forget the Alamo written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark.
Download or read book From Under God s Wing written by Paul J. Lyon and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrique Esparza was a boy who survived the Alamo massacre and told his story completely only when an old man, to a newspaper reporter. The account was published in San Antonio in a series of articles, which are recreated at book length in From Under God's Wing, by Paul J. Lyon. The premise of this "history fiction novel," which contains extensive footnotes, is that the manuscript was suppressed for a century as being contrary to the popular conceptions about the famous battle. The majority of the footnotes are excerpts from travel books, journals, novels, poems, and first-person accounts of the early 1800s. Esparza sketches the details of the Alamo fight from the ground up, filling it in with the similar descriptions by these others of the same era: the reader is introduced to the slang, common food, clothing, and attitudes of the people trapped in the fort for 12 days of siege, discusses why the men decided to stay and die, and reveals a blow-by-blow account of the battle itself.
Download or read book The Alamo written by John Myers and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The majority of the stories of the Alamo fight have been partly legendary, partly hearsay and at best fragmentary. It has been left to John Myers Myers to present an exhaustively researched book which reveals the chronicle of the siege of the Alamo in an entirely different light. . . . Myers' story will stand as the best that has yet been written on the Alamo. . . . It's a classic."-Boston Post "Here is a historian with the vitality and drive to match his subject. A reporter of the first rank, he can clothe the dry bones of history with the living stuff of which today's news is made."-Chicago Tribune John Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc Holliday and Tombstone's Early Years, also available as Bison Books.
Download or read book The Alamo written by Michael Burgan and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how in 1836, a small group of defenders at the Alamo fought to the death against thousands of Mexican soldiers during the Texas Revolution.
Download or read book History and Legends of the Alamo written by Adina de Zavala and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Was the Alamo written by Pam Pollack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, young readers will relive this famous moment in Texas history.
Download or read book The Alamo Mission written by Marion Alphonse Habig and published by Franciscan Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book News Monitoring Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
