Downed allied airmen and evasion of capture, Bodson, Herman

Автор: Stentiford Barry
Название: Tuskegee Airmen
ISBN: 0313386846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780313386848
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Цена: 33660.00 T
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Описание: This poignant history of the Tuskegee Airmen separates myth and legend from fact, placing them within the context of the growth of American airpower and the early stirrings of the African American Civil Rights Movement.

Автор: Lanning Michael Lee
Название: The Blister Club: The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II
ISBN: 0811739740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780811739740
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter half of his life in exile. His devotion to his country and his people never faltered, nor his determination to give them a glorious place on the European cultural map by his writings. On his justly famous Carta Marina, published in Venic

Автор: Campbell Douglas A.
Название: Eight Survived: The Harrowing Story of the USS Flier and the Only Downed World War II Submariners to Survive and Evade Capture
ISBN: 1493032852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493032853
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: The incredible wartime saga of the only American submariners to survive the sinking of their ship and evade enemy capture in WWII On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier struck a mine in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines as it steamed along the surface. All but fifteen of the more than eighty-strong crew went down with the vessel. Of those left floating in the dark, eight survived by swimming for seventeen hours before washing ashore on an uninhabited island. The story of the Flier and its eight survivors is wholly unique in the annals of U.S. military history. Eight Survived tells the gripping story of the doomed submarine and its crew from its first patrol, during which it sank several enemy ships, to the explosion in the Sulu Sea. Drawing on interviews with the survivors and on a visit to the jungle where they washed ashore--where a cast of fascinating characters helped the U.S. sailors evade the Japanese--Douglas Campbell fully captures the combination of extraordinary courage and luck that marked one of the most heroic episodes of World War II.

Автор: Stekel Peter
Название: Final Flight: The Mystery of a WW II Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra
ISBN: 0899979971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780899979977
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 33980.00 T
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Описание: In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing above Mendel Glacier in the High Sierra finds the mummified remains of a man in a WW II uniform, entombed in the ice. The "Iceman" discovery creates a media storm which draws author Peter Stekel to investigate and stumble upon the case of a navigation training flight crew missing since 1942. Early attempts at recovery are thwarted due to empty graves, botched records, bad weather, bad luck, and bad timing. Then, in 2007, Stekel himself discovers a second body in the glacier. Through meticulous research, interviews, and his own mountaineering trips to the site, Stekel uncovers the identities of these four young men. Final Flight explores the story of the ill-fated flight and the misinformation surrounding it for over 60 years. The book is a gripping account that's part mystery, part history, and a personal journey to uncover the truth of the events that occurred on November 18, 1942. In the process, Stekel rewrites the young aviators' last days and takes us on their final flight.

Автор: Stanley Charles E.
Название: Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines
ISBN: 168451262X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684512621
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: On a mission over central Afghanistan, Punk is hit - and taken captive by the Taliban. And after he escapes, the challenge is not over. Because now Punk must navigate the war-torn country not from the skies, but on the ground - seeing up close for the first time the world of resistance fighters, warlords, CIA undercover ops, and corrupt officers.

Автор: Dan Jackson
Название: Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America`s Missing Airmen in China during World War II
ISBN: 1682474941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682474945
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 38810.00 T
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Описание: During the war, America`s air forces in China reported at least 634 aircraft and 1,780 airmen as missing on combat missions. The author of this volume scoured thousands of pages of official reports to build a comprehensive database of every American reported missing in China. Memoirs, wartime diaries, and interviews overlay this historical research.

Автор: Wolk Bruce H.
Название: Jewish Aviators in World War II: Personal Narratives of American Airmen
ISBN: 0786499958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786499953
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 33270.00 T
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Описание: More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite acts of heroism and commendations, they were subject to bigotry and scorn by their fellow servicemen. Jews were sometimes characterized as disloyal and cowardly, malingering in the slanderous (and non-existent) "Jewish Quartermaster Corps" or sitting out the war in easy assignments. Based on interviews with more than 100 Jewish air veterans, this oral history features the recollections of pilots, crew members and support personnel in all theaters of combat and all branches of the service, including Jewish women of the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The subjects recall their combat experiences, lives as POWs, and anti-Semitism in the ranks, as well as human interest anecdotes such as encounters with the Tuskegee Airmen.