Download or read book I Let Everyone Gang Me So I Could Become A Fighter Pilot written by Jilly Bangs and published by Jilly Bangs. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most guys had to do years of training to become a pilot, but as a woman, I knew a shortcut to getting the job I wanted...
Download or read book Bad Love Tigers written by Kevin L. Schewe and published by JanCarol Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh off their mission to rescue Holocaust victims in 1944 Poland, the Bad Love Gang assemble at the White Hole Project to celebrate New Year's Eve 1975. At the stroke of midnight, they are ambushed by a Russian KGB agent bent on stealing the secrets of the White Hole Project. Faced with telling the authorities or going it alone, the Bad Love Gang travels back in time to meet with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) for his advice and direction. FDR appoints the Bad Love Gang to protect the future integrity and security of not only the White Hole Project, but also America's top-secret Area 51. To accomplish FDR's directives, the Gang must undertake a dangerous road trip across 1945 WWII America from Warm Springs, Georgia to Area 51 in Nevada. Russian, Chinese, and Indian espionage forces stand in their path. Their mission ends in June, 1942 WWII China, where at FDR's mandate, the Bad Love Gang volunteer for the famous AVG Flying Tigers under General Claire Chennault. In the forests of southern China, they must protect the secrets of Area 51 and keep those secrets in America's hands. Can they do it?
Download or read book America s Secret MiG Squadron written by Gaillard R. Peck, Jr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal account of the original “Red Eagle” of the establishment, equipment, and training practices of the highly classified MiG squadron of the USAF. America's Secret MiG Squadrons is the story of a group of incredibly brave military pioneers who put their lives on the line to establish a training program that would prepare the US Air Force for a potential Cold War battle with Soviet aircraft. As a F-4 Phantom II pilot in Vietnam, Col. Peck had been shocked by the technological abilities of Soviet-built aircraft, and at the poor level of training available to US pilots to aid them in their battles with Soviet MiGs in the skies over Vietnam. Working with the support of Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr., and under conditions of extreme secrecy, the CONSTANT PEG program was launched with Peck as the original Red Eagle. This is the fascinating history of the men who trained to fly and maintain covertly obtained MiGs, for the first time providing an insider's perspective, personal anecdotes, and photographs, revealing how Peck battled bureaucracy and scepticism to ultimately establish the premier fighter pilot training center – the real Top Gun.
Download or read book Next Voyage Will Be Different written by Thomas E. Henry and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am privileged to know Tom Henry personally, a man who has devoted much of his amazing life to the art of seafaring. His remarkable story of a young mansetting out on a traditional maritime career and then spending a great deal of his life at sea is sure to fascinate those addicted to old fashioned mariner's tales. It is a charming story of a once-common lifestyle that has now almost entirely disappeared. I recommend it highly. Joseph Balkoski, author of Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944 "Life at sea is always a fascinating subject. With charm, wit, and a story teller's skill, Henry brings alive his decades long career as a merchant seaman with great stories about people, exotic places and the day to day business of a ship's officer at work and play. It is a tale that only an old sailor could tell. A terrific read for sea buffs and 'landlubbers' alike." Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD, author of The Origins of FBI Counter Intelligence Thomas E. Henry was born and raised on the south shore of Long Island, New York. There he attended the local Babylon schools until March 1945, when he left at age seventeen to serve on active duty in the U.S. Naval Reserve. During his year and a half in the Navy he achieved the rank of gunners's mate third class. Following his discharge from the service he attended, on the 'GI Bill' the Cathedral Scholl of Saint Paul, in Garden City, New York. He graduated in June 1947 with his high school diploma. In 1951 he graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, which scholl readied him for a life in the United States Merchant Mariner. In 1985, at age fifty seven, and after thirty three years of service he retired. He had sailed as a ship's master with the United States Lines Company. For the following three years he served on periods of active duty in the Naval Reserve as a ship handling instructor at Little Creek, Virginia. He and Barbara, his devoted wife of over thirty years, reside in Stuart Florida, where Captain Henry is presently employed as an instructed at the well-known Chapman School of Seamanship.
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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Red River Valley Fighter Pilots written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fighter Pilot written by Lt. L. C. Beck Jr. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighter Pilot is the incredible story of a World War II fighter pilot, 1st Lieutenant Levitt Beck, Jr., who was shot down in German-occupied France and hidden by members of the French underground. There he wrote this story of his life practically up until the moment he was discovered. He perished in Buchenwald concentration camp, but his manuscript was delivered to his parents after the war, who took on the responsibility of seeing it published posthumously in 1946. Lt. Beck was shot down near Havelu, Eure-et-Loir, France on 29 June 1944 on an Armed Reconnaissance mission to the Mantes-la-Jolie/Gassicourt area. Although he initially managed to evade capture, he was eventually taken prisoner and, together with more than 167 other Allied airmen, was on a convoy that left Paris on August 18, 1944. He was interned at the Buchenwald concentration camp on August 20, 1944, where he became ill from maltreatment and undernourishment and died of “Lungentuberculosis” (phthisis; pulmonary consumption) in the camp hospital on October 31, 1944, aged 24. His remains were never found and he continues to be listed as MIA (Missing in Action). He is believed to have been cremated in Buchenwald the day following his death. He memorialized at the Luxembourg American Cemetery, Luxembourg City, Great-Duchy of Luxemburg.
Download or read book Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailors Journey Into War written by Robert A. Maher and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, the navy destroyer, USS Borie, and a German U-boat, were engaged in a fierce battle north of the Azores Islands. This personal account from a crew member of the Borie follows the action, as well as illustrating the determination and courage shown by servicemen during the war as a whole.
Download or read book Rhodesian Air Force Operations written by Preller Geldenhuys and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book records the operations of the Rhodesian Air Force. It includes a log of over 1100 airstrikes carried out as well as maps where most of these strikes have been meticulously plotted. The maps are in full colour. Numerous photographs illustrate the text. The author has produced a comprehensive account of the Air Force role in the war in Rhodesia - Zimbabwe. The work includes one of the most detailed summaries of Rhodesian military operations to have been published, and in this respect serves as an excellent work or reference to those historians and collectors of militaria. It is a book that fills in much detail.A comprehensive index is included. To the very end the Air Force kept up its valiant task of securing the airspace for the troops, the BSAP, the farmers and industry. All in all this is a highly readable, extremely detailed account of the Air Force's part in the war against terrorism
Download or read book Air War in the Pacific The Journal of General George Kenney Commander of the Fifth U S Air Force written by George C. Kenney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air War in the Pacific details the development and ultimate supremacy of the US Air Force during World War 2. Written from the perspective of General George C. Kenney, the man in charge, the book is a candid insider's account of how America turned the tables on the Japanese in the Pacific through a combination of strategy, tactics, and superior air technology.
Download or read book London Underground written by Ian R Bell and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1977, and as England goes to the dogs, university student, Julie Kent, reinvents herself as Sterling - an outrageous thieving Goth with a dodgy sex life and an appalling attitude. Over the next two decades she cuts a bloody swathe through London's criminal underworld until she finally ends up on a mortuary slab...but is she really dead?The social disintegration of the late Twentieth century is mirrored in Sterling's mind - and body - as she sets off on her final mission to avenge her best friend and lover who was brutally murdered by a ruthless gang of underworld assassins. George Brenton, a mortuary assistant, is drawn into her toxic web. Can she save him - and herself?Ian Bell's take on the Gothic Novel has plenty of ingredients to turn our minds (and stomachs), but as an acute observer of society at all levels he enthrals the reader with an eye for detail, brilliant characterisation - and a sense of the unseen evil lurking in London's dark and dangerous underworld. Miss it at your peril!
Download or read book Reach for the Sky written by Eric Artzer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reach For The Sky is a motivational autobiography that takes the reader on a real-life roller coaster ride revealing how to achieve success. The author tells stories of his childhood while seamlessly comparing those experiences with that of any child or young adult - regardless of social stature, location, monetary income or color of skin. The book begins with childhood experiences and smoothly transitions to adulthood revealing how everyday lessons in life can be used to your advantage while reaching for your dreams. The book tells of an average child growing up in small town Iowa who dreamed of someday flying fighter aircraft. That day arrived so the question is, "How can you achieve your childhood dreams?" Reach For The Sky will have you believing that regardless of your age, you too can achieve success in life. We live in a world full of excuses, full of deniability by which we use as a defense mechanism to avoid failure and rejection. Because of that, many view successful people as "lucky" or "rich to begin with". Defining success is the first subject that will be covered in Reach For The Sky. Success hinges on setting goals for yourself, attaining those goals, and living your life the way YOU want - to work with happiness defines "success". Reach For The Sky will provide real-life examples of obstacles encountered throughout childhood and how to turn each into a positive vector towards success. Additionally, this book will provide insight to just how similar our childhood experiences are - regardless of which town you may live. Finally, the reader will enjoy an honest look at the hard work and dedication it will take to achieve success.
Download or read book Poles in Defence of Britain written by Robert Gretzyngier and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2002-08-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known WWII story of the Polish Air Force fliers who played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain and beyond. To the Polish volunteers who flew and fought so brilliantly and tenaciously throughout the Battle of Britain, the United Kingdom was known as “Last Hope Island.” Many lost their lives, such as Antoni Ostowicz. Many achieved glory and became aces—such as Glowacki, Skalski, and Witorzenc. The RAF came to depend on these men, with over one hundred Polish pilots supporting almost thirty fighter squadrons, most especially 302, 303, and 307 (night fighter). The result of years of research, Robert Gretzyngier’s book includes detailed combat descriptions, personal accounts from combat reports, memoirs, and diaries from the Polish, British, and German perspective, with in-depth biographical data of all Polish pilots, including full RAF and PAF careers and much tabular material in appendix form. Poles in Defence of Britain is a tremendous account of Polish contribution in those hectic days before the RAF began to take the offensive across the Channel, with many previously unpublished photographs from private collections.
