Author: Wallace R. Forman
Publisher: Specialty Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A product of years of statistical research, this detailed listing of over 7,800 Consolidated B-17s in all their variations from the WWII era, provides the aircraft's name and, where available, group, squadron and serial number.
The B-17 Flying Fortress Story
Author: Roger Anthony Freeman
Publisher: Arms & Armour
ISBN: 9781854095220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The B-17 Flying Fortress was a major factor in the success of the Allied war against Germany. It was the epitome of a challenge faced, fought and won, a powerful aircraft that achieved celebrity status adn retained it through the war, operating extensively with the US 8th Air Force from bases throughout East Anglia.
Publisher: Arms & Armour
ISBN: 9781854095220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The B-17 Flying Fortress was a major factor in the success of the Allied war against Germany. It was the epitome of a challenge faced, fought and won, a powerful aircraft that achieved celebrity status adn retained it through the war, operating extensively with the US 8th Air Force from bases throughout East Anglia.
B-17 Nose Art Name Directory
Author: Wallace Forman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580072250
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This directory is the product of years of statistical research by author Wallace Forman. It lists over 8,200 Boeing B-17s from the World War II era on which some sort of name identification was obtained, showing name and where available, group, squadron, and serial number. The photos in this book are black and white.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580072250
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This directory is the product of years of statistical research by author Wallace Forman. It lists over 8,200 Boeing B-17s from the World War II era on which some sort of name identification was obtained, showing name and where available, group, squadron, and serial number. The photos in this book are black and white.
Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics
Author: Thomas R. Yechout
Publisher: AIAA
ISBN: 9781600860782
Category : Aerodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Based on a 15-year successful approach to teaching aircraft flight mechanics at the US Air Force Academy, this text explains the concepts and derivations of equations for aircraft flight mechanics. It covers aircraft performance, static stability, aircraft dynamics stability and feedback control.
Publisher: AIAA
ISBN: 9781600860782
Category : Aerodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Based on a 15-year successful approach to teaching aircraft flight mechanics at the US Air Force Academy, this text explains the concepts and derivations of equations for aircraft flight mechanics. It covers aircraft performance, static stability, aircraft dynamics stability and feedback control.
The Writing 69th
Author: Jim Hamilton
Publisher: Green Harbor Publications
ISBN: 0971721106
Category : War correspondents
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Writing 69th, eight civilian and military journalists who covered the U.S. 8th Air Force during World War II, included Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney and Homer Bigart. Six of them participated in a bombing raid on German Naval installations at Wilhelmshaven in 1943. One of the journalists, Bob Post of the New York Times, did not return. The author has gathered accounts from military and civilian participants to tell the story of the Writing 69th and the raid on Wilhelmshaven.
Publisher: Green Harbor Publications
ISBN: 0971721106
Category : War correspondents
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Writing 69th, eight civilian and military journalists who covered the U.S. 8th Air Force during World War II, included Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney and Homer Bigart. Six of them participated in a bombing raid on German Naval installations at Wilhelmshaven in 1943. One of the journalists, Bob Post of the New York Times, did not return. The author has gathered accounts from military and civilian participants to tell the story of the Writing 69th and the raid on Wilhelmshaven.
I Will Tell No War Stories
Author: Howard Mansfield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493081098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
When Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule not to talk about what he’d experienced in war. “You’re not getting any war stories from me,” he’d say. Cleaning up the old family house the year before his father's death, Mansfield was surprised to find a short diary of the bombing missions he had flown. Some of the missions were harrowing. Mansfield began to fill in the details, and to be surprised again, this time by a history he thought he knew. I Will Tell No War Stories is about undoing the forgetting in a family and in a society that has hidden the horrors and cataclysm of a world at war. Some part of that forgetting was necessary for the veterans, otherwise how could they come home, how could they find peace? I Will Tell No War Stories is also about learning to live with history, a theme Mansfield explored in earlier books like In the Memory House, which The New York Times called “a wise and beautiful book” and The Same Ax,Twice, said by the Times to be “filled with insight and eloquence … a brilliant book.”
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493081098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
When Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule not to talk about what he’d experienced in war. “You’re not getting any war stories from me,” he’d say. Cleaning up the old family house the year before his father's death, Mansfield was surprised to find a short diary of the bombing missions he had flown. Some of the missions were harrowing. Mansfield began to fill in the details, and to be surprised again, this time by a history he thought he knew. I Will Tell No War Stories is about undoing the forgetting in a family and in a society that has hidden the horrors and cataclysm of a world at war. Some part of that forgetting was necessary for the veterans, otherwise how could they come home, how could they find peace? I Will Tell No War Stories is also about learning to live with history, a theme Mansfield explored in earlier books like In the Memory House, which The New York Times called “a wise and beautiful book” and The Same Ax,Twice, said by the Times to be “filled with insight and eloquence … a brilliant book.”
Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.