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1) Devotion
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elite fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner become the U.S. Navy's most celebrated wingmen during the Korean War.
2) The nugget
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget," who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and losing his friend in this act of war, the formerly naive Steele vows to avenge the attack. Flying...
4) Starsight
Author
Series
Skyward volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true--he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
Author
Series
The battle born volume 1
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Investigating a series of mysterious lights floating dangerously close to his aircraft carrier, TOP GUN instructor Colt Bancroft loses control of his stealth fighter, crashing headfirst into a global conspiracy where, to clear his name and unmask a traitor, he must survive a deadly game of spy-vs-spy.
9) 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.