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The Bombardier Story

Author : Larry MacDonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118482948
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book The Bombardier Story written by Larry MacDonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the company that was founded by the inventor of the snowmobile In 1942, Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile and founded his company to manufacture them. From its humble beginnings as an entrepreneurial company in rural Quebec, led by an enterprising inventor, Bombardier Inc. has emerged as a global leader in the transportation industry. This book tells the fascinating tale of this remarkably well managed company that has enjoyed spectacular growth in its chosen markets through strong leadership and management strategy, succession planning, strategic diversification, and turnaround and acquisition artistry. The fascinating story of the world's largest rail manufacturer for both railway and subway Reveals why Bombardier Inc. is a multi-faceted global company yet nobody knows their name Written by Larry MacDonald the author of Nortel Network The Bombardier Story shows how invention and entrepreneurship, management and leadership, smooth succession planning, and turnaround and acquisition built this global powerhouse.

The Bombardier Story

Author : Larry MacDonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118485017
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book The Bombardier Story written by Larry MacDonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the company that was founded by the inventor of the snowmobile In 1942, Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile and founded his company to manufacture them. From its humble beginnings as an entrepreneurial company in rural Quebec, led by an enterprising inventor, Bombardier Inc. has emerged as a global leader in the transportation industry. This book tells the fascinating tale of this remarkably well managed company that has enjoyed spectacular growth in its chosen markets through strong leadership and management strategy, succession planning, strategic diversification, and turnaround and acquisition artistry. The fascinating story of the world's largest rail manufacturer for both railway and subway Reveals why Bombardier Inc. is a multi-faceted global company yet nobody knows their name Written by Larry MacDonald the author of Nortel Network The Bombardier Story shows how invention and entrepreneurship, management and leadership, smooth succession planning, and turnaround and acquisition built this global powerhouse.

A Bombardier's Story

Author : Paul Dolan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970035905
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book A Bombardier's Story written by Paul Dolan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Girl and the Bombardier

Author : Susan Tate Ankeny
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635767148
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Girl and the Bombardier written by Susan Tate Ankeny and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enthralling WWII biography combines a downed B-17 bombardier’s unfinished memoir with letters from the French girl who saved his life. Susan Tate Ankeny’s father was a World War II veteran bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944. After he died, she found his unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, and the fake identity cards he used in his escape. Ankeny spent more than a decade tracking down letter writers, their loved ones, and anyone who had played a role in her father's story, culminating in a trip to France where she retraced his path with the same people who had guided him more than sixty years ago. While piecing together her father’s wartime experience, Ankeny discovered a remarkable hero. Godelieve Van Laere was just a teenaged girl when she saved the fallen Lieutenant Dean Tate, risking her life and forging a friendship that would last into a new century. The result is a fascinating and dramatic World War II tale enhanced by personal interviews with participants. It traces the transformation of a small-town American boy into a bombardier, the thrill and chaos of aerial warfare, and the horror of bailing from a flaming aircraft over enemy territory. It distinguishes the actions of a little-known French resistance network for Allied airmen known as Shelburne. And it shines a light on the courage and cunning of a young woman who risked her life to save another.

WWII Bombardiers

Author : Philip A. St. John
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563113384
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book WWII Bombardiers written by Philip A. St. John and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes history of various bomb groups, pictures and biographies of bombardiers, and history of the development of bombing equipment.

The Story of a Bombardier in World War II

Author : Edith C. Sweeney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Story of a Bombardier in World War II written by Edith C. Sweeney and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bombardiers

Author : Po Bronson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780749396671
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book Bombardiers written by Po Bronson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BOOK: They were the bombardiers, hunkered down behind their screens at Alantic Pacific, dealing bonds they hated to people they hated in jobs that took all their lives. Sid Geeder was King of Mortgages and Eggs Igino his lietenant. The air they breathed was rotten with the stench of high tech, information economy, pure capitalism and with the frenzy of grunts driven wild by impossible targets, unmeetable deadlines and overwhelming work loads, they wanted only out.

A Front Row Seat

Author : Norval R. Seeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book A Front Row Seat written by Norval R. Seeley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twenty-five Missions

Author : Charles R. Wayman
Publisher : Daniel & Daniel Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781564744791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-five Missions written by Charles R. Wayman and published by Daniel & Daniel Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pilot's journal, his daughter's keepsake, a record of valor in the skies over Europe. This first-person account of World War II is a father-daughter collaboration. Charles's contribution is the material he left behind: a nostalgic introduction about his youth and adolescence during the great depression, entries from the journal he kept after he joined the army ad went through training in the Army Air Corps, and his flight log, a record of the 25 missions he flew over Europe from November 1943 - 1944. Interspersed between and among Charles entries are annotations by his daughter, Candace, who comments on the events in Charles's journal and gives historical background information about what was going on in the war effort at that time.

Shot at and Missed

Author : Jack R. Myers
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806180307
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Shot at and Missed written by Jack R. Myers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting narrative, Jack R. Myers recounts his experiences as a B-17 bombardier during World War II. Commissioned a second lieutenant in 1944 at age twenty, Myers began flying missions with the 2nd Bomb Group, U.S. Fifteenth Air Force. He learned firsthand the exhilaration—and terror—of being shot at and missed. Based in Italy, the Fifteenth Air Force flew strategic bombing raids over southern Germany, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, and Czechoslovakia. Less celebrated than the Eighth Air Force, which flew out of England, the Fifteenth, nevertheless, was pivotal in dismantling the German industrial complex. Myers offers an insider’s view of these missions over southern and central Europe. The reader goes with him into the highly exposed Plexiglas nose of the Flying Fortress, flying with him through the flak-filled skies of Europe and peering with him through his Norden bombsight at Axis targets. On average, a heavy-bomber crewman survived only sixteen bombing missions. Myers survived his allotted thirty-five missions before being honorably discharged in 1945.

Odyssey of a Bombardier

Author : John J. Hurt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611494966
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Odyssey of a Bombardier written by John J. Hurt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War “log” that depicts the experiences of bombardier Richard M. Mason in German prison camps after his B-17 “Flying Fortress” was shot down by the Germans in France in 1944, the final year of World War II. The log follows Mason from the day his plane crashed until his liberation in April, 1945, and his return home to the United States. Included are such topics as medical treatment and rehabilitation for wounded prisoners of the Germans, life in Stalag Luft III, a difficult long march in an arctic winter to another camp, the travails of prisoners in the overcrowded, filthy camp at Moosburg, critical food shortages, and the arrival of General George Patton with the liberating forces. Mason was an amateur artist and illustrated his journal with moving depictions of prison life and comradeship. This book shows U.S. airmen demonstrating grace and courage under pressure and meeting every challenge that their imprisonment presented.

Into the Land of Darkness

Author : Arthur L. Haarmeyer
Publisher : Arthur Haarmeyer
ISBN 13 : 9780988674912
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Into the Land of Darkness written by Arthur L. Haarmeyer and published by Arthur Haarmeyer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a wintry morning in 1952, young Lt. Arthur L. Haarmeyer reported for duty in Korea as a B-26 bombardier-navigator to Colonel Delwin Bentley, Commander, 95th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group, K-9 Air Force Base, Pusan. Haarmeyer was immediately challenged by the colonel: "You've got an MBA from a high-priced university. You could be riding a desk at the Pentagon right now. So why the hell are you here?" His reply--"I always wanted to be here, sir. I can be an accountant later"--was apparently convincing. But over the next seven months, flying fifty missions, mostly low-level nighttime bombing and strafing raids over mountainous North Korea, there were times when he had reason to question the sanity of both his response and his decision. In this book Haarmeyer recalls with clarity and economy of style just what it was like to fly these missions. He puts the reader in the B-26, flying into deep valleys to find and attack communist freight trains and truck convoys carrying men and materiel to the front lines, and then being unexpectedly caught in the sudden and blinding glare of enemy searchlights that triggered multiple streams of deadly and upward-arcing green or white tracers. And he recalls instances of agony, guilt, and terror: such as the times when the flak was so heavy on all sides that he was unable to advise his pilot to "break right" or "break left"-so their B-26 just simply plowed straight through it, or when they flew low enough for Haarmeyer to see, through the Plexiglas of the nose compartment, the terrified faces of the young North Korean soldiers they were targeting. He also recalls moments of breathtaking beauty and poignancy, and it is this artful juxtaposition that makes Haarmeyer's work more than just another wartime memoir. Although Haarmeyer left the Air Force upon completion of his three-year contract of military service, the recurring and troubling memories of Korea never left him. Hence, the start of this manuscript fifty years after the restoration of freedom to the people of the Republic of Korea. Just as telling these stories was therapeutic for the author, so reading them will be healing for any reader who is a veteran of that or any war, as well as their family members and friends. The book also provides a valuable perspective on the United Nations Command's tactical approach to Korea, namely, the aerial interdiction of North Korean troops and materiel, and so it will be of interest to students of the war, as well as military personnel and historians.

Tomlin's Crew

Author : John William Smallwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Tomlin's Crew written by John William Smallwood and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder

Author : Travis Nichols
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566892708
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder written by Travis Nichols and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titled after the US Air Force song, this engaging debut explores the legacy of the Greatest Generation from the perspective of Generation Y, the fallout of war through the eyes of a pacifist, and the enduring human desire for love, adventure, truth, and understanding. Pensive in the wake of 9/11, a young man—our “correspondent between the past and the present”—launches a mission to reunite his beloved grandfather, an American bombardier, with Luddie, the woman who saved him during WWII. Armed only with the address on the back of an old photograph and his grandfather’s memories, the young man begins writing letters to Luddie. Undaunted by her lack of response, the narrator travels to Poland with his girlfriend and grandfather. As they come closer to finding the site where the bombardier was shot down, the letters to Luddie become more personal and the saga of a family with a long and storied history emerges. Beautifully orchestrated and eloquently original, each sentence slowly builds upon the next in a charming style both poetic and engrossing. A tale of soldiers and saviors, of burning and bombing, of fathers and sons and brothers and lovers, this is also the story of what we find when we dare to revisit the past. Born in Iowa in 1979, Travis Nichols now lives in Chicago. An editor at the Poetry Foundation, his writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Believer, Details, Paste, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Stranger. Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder is his first novel.

Pass with Care

Author : Cooper Lee Bombardier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948340212
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Pass with Care written by Cooper Lee Bombardier and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, lyrical, and piercingly insightful essay collection about gender and sexuality, by trans writer and artist Cooper Lee Bombardier.

Into the Land of Darkness

Author : Arthur L. Haarmeyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988674905
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Into the Land of Darkness written by Arthur L. Haarmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a wintry morning in 1952, young Lt. Arthur L. Haarmeyer reported for duty in Korea as a B-26 bombardier-navigator to Colonel Delwin Bentley, Commander, 95th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group, K-9 Air Force Base, Pusan. Haarmeyer was immediately challenged by the colonel: “You’ve got an MBA … from a high-priced university. You could be riding a desk at the Pentagon right now. So why the hell are you here?” His reply—“I always wanted to be here, sir. I can be an accountant later”—was apparently convincing. But over the next seven months, flying fifty missions, mostly low-level nighttime bombing and strafing raids over mountainous North Korea, there were times when he had reason to question the sanity of both his response and his decision. Most of Haarmeyer’s combat missions were single-ship sorties flown in darkness with his crew. Here Haarmeyer recalls with clarity and economy of style what it was like to fly these missions. He puts the reader into the B-26, flying into deep valleys to find and attack communist freight trains and truck convoys headed for the front lines, and then unexpectedly caught in the glare of enemy searchlights that triggered streams of deadly and upward-arcing green or white tracers. He recalls instances of agony, guilt, and terror, as well as moments of breathtaking beauty and poignancy. It is this artful juxtaposition that makes Haarmeyer's work more than just another wartime memoir. Although Haarmeyer left the Air Force upon completion of his military service, the recurring and troubling memories of Korea never left him. Telling these stories was therapeutic for the author, and reading them will be healing for any reader who is a veteran of that or any war, as well as their family members and friends. The book also provides a valuable perspective on the United Nations Command’s tactical approach to Korea, namely, the aerial interdiction of North Korean troops and materiel, and so it will be of interest to students of the war, as well as military personnel and historians.

We Never Said Good-Bye: Memoirs of a Bombardier from World War II

Author : Jack I. Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0988945029
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book We Never Said Good-Bye: Memoirs of a Bombardier from World War II written by Jack I. Moore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We Never Said Good-Bye: Memoirs of a Bombardier from World War II" is the wartime memoir of Jack I. Moore, who flew 36 missions in the Pacific in the final year of World War II. For his service, Moore earned a Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and five Air Medals. It is a story of triumph and tragedy, and one of the last memoirs from a member of the Greatest Generation. Moore's candid chronicle is an honest look at personal struggles and achievements. It is a story of Purple Hearts, Iwo Jima, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of disease, kamikazes, family, life, fathers and sons, mothers, birth, death, war, loss, faith, atheism, quiet joy, fear, bomb runs and jazz bands, courage, heroism, and even occasional stupidity. From the bitterly cold winter morning when he leaves his Minneapolis home in 1943, to his return at the end of the war, this book celebrates those who served during World War II, while embracing the complex range of emotions and experiences that are unique to a time of war.