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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell [...] weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history....
4) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardback ed.
Physical Desc
316 p. : photos., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whirlwind is the only book to examine in depth the human drama behind the most important bombing campaign in history. While the air war against Nazi Germany has been covered in-depth by many books, Barrett Tillman, a renowned authority on military aircraft and the air war in the Pacific, is the first to tackle the air war against Japan. For decades, historians and politicians have debated whether or not Japan was on the verge of surrender in August...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In mid-1942, Japan's military leadership planned to destroy the U.S. Pacific fleet before American industrial power made Japan's war unwinnable.This book documents how an eleven month, long-range air-sea war of attrition was played out between the USA, Canada, and Japan along the length of the Aleutian archipelago,
10) Flight to Arras
Author
Publisher
Reynal & Hitchcock
Pub. Date
[1942]
Physical Desc
4 p. l., 11-255 p. : incl. plates. 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
104 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bombing Nazi Germany profiles the dramatic and heroic story of the joint American-British Allied air war against Nazi Germany that helped end World War II in Europe.
16) What was D-Day?
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
107 pages : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of D-Day on June 6, 1944 when allied forces crossed the English Channel to land in France to defeat Hitler in World War II.
18) That fateful day
Author
Publisher
Printed by Glens Falls Printing
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
90 p.
Language
English
Description
The story of two lieutenants in the American Balloon Service of World War I. Includes bibliographical references.