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Flyboys

Author : James Bradley
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759508321
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Flyboys written by James Bradley and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men. Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared. When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened on Chichi Jima. The records of a top-secret military tribunal were sealed, the lives of the eight Flyboys were erased, and the parents, brothers, sisters, and sweethearts they left behind were left to wonder. Flyboys reveals for the first time ever the extraordinary story of those men. Bradley's quest for the truth took him from dusty attics in American small towns, to untapped government archives containing classified documents, to the heart of Japan, and finally to Chichi Jima itself. What he discovered was a mystery that dated back far before World War II-back 150 years, to America's westward expansion and Japan's first confrontation with the western world. Bradley brings into vivid focus these brave young men who went to war for their country, and through their lives he also tells the larger story of two nations in a hellish war. With no easy moralizing, Bradley presents history in all its savage complexity, including the Japanese warrior mentality that fostered inhuman brutality and the U.S. military strategy that justified attacks on millions of civilians. And, after almost sixty years of mystery, Bradley finally reveals the fate of the eight American Flyboys, all of whom would ultimately face a moment and a decision that few of us can even imagine. Flyboys is a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor. It is about how we die, and how we live-including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture, a young Navy pilot named George H. W. Bush who would one day become president of the United States. A masterpiece of historical narrative, Flyboys will change forever our understanding of the Pacific war and the very things we fight for.

Flyboys

Author : Tom Hanley TFT B.S.A.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0738808652
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Flyboys written by Tom Hanley TFT B.S.A. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1999-10-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy Riley and his friends are growing up among the men and machines of a key Air Force Base in the middle of the Cold War. One day, the boys sneak into a top-secret reconnaissance bomber, switch on the radio, and overhear a commie plan that is so diabolical . . .

Fly Boy

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143180274
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Fly Boy written by Eric Walters and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robbie's father is a spitfire pilot who was shot down during World War II and is now a POW. At only seventeen, Robbie lies about his identity to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force under the guise of going to a boarding school so that his mother doesn't find out. He starts training in Brandon, Manitoba, but after acing all his classes, he's dealt a disappointing blow when he's assigned to be a navigator on a Lancaster. He wanted to be a pilot, just like his father, but the commanders of the air force have other ideas. Robbie is soon on his way to England, where he completes his training on missions bombing German targets in enemy territory. It is during one of these missions that his Lancaster is fired upon and the pilot and many of the crew are shot. It's up to Robbie and his limited piloting experience to save the crew...and himself.

Flyboys

Author : Tom Hanley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469108046
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Flyboys written by Tom Hanley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1999-11-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy Riley and his friends are growing up among the men and machines of a key Air Force Base in the middle of the Cold War. One day, the boys sneak into a top-secret reconnaissance bomber, switch on the radio, and overhear a commie plan that is so diabolical . . .

Flyboy 2

Author : Greg Tate
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373998
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Flyboy 2 written by Greg Tate and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles Davis or Ice Cube, reviewing an Azealia Banks mixtape or Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, discussing visual artist Kara Walker or writer Clarence Major, or analyzing the ties between Afro-futurism, Black feminism, and social movements, Tate's resounding critical insights illustrate how race, gender, and class become manifest in American popular culture. Above all, Tate demonstrates through his signature mix of vernacular poetics and cultural theory and criticism why visionary Black artists, intellectuals, aesthetics, philosophies, and politics matter to twenty-first-century America.

The Mexican Flyboy

Author : Alfredo Véa
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806155477
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Mexican Flyboy written by Alfredo Véa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths? What if we could rewrite history to protect and reward the innocent victims of injustice? In Alfredo Véa’s daring new novel, one man does just that, taking readers on a series of remarkable journeys. Abandoned as a child, brooding and haunted as an adult, Simon Vegas, “the Mexican Flyboy,” toils for years to repair a time machine that fell into his hands in Vietnam. With the help of his friend, eccentric Hephaestus Segundo, Simon uses the device to fly through time. Wherever acts of human cruelty take place, in the past or in the present, the machine lets him lift the suffering away and deliver them to a utopian afterlife. Blending magical realism, science fiction, history, and comic-book fantasy, The Mexican Flyboy swoops readers from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the vineyards of Northern California, from Ethel Rosenberg’s execution to Joan of Arc’s pyre, in a tale of justice, trauma, regret, and redemption. The dead pass through the narrative in a parade at once heartbreaking and hopeful, among them Vincent van Gogh and Malcolm X, Ernest Hemingway and Amadou Diallo. But the living—Simon’s pregnant wife, Elena, his old friend Ezekiel Stein, prisoner Lenny Hudson—all throw doubt onto Simon’s story. Is Simon truly a “magus,” transporting martyrs to a shared community in paradise? Or is he just a man broken by loss, guilt, and the trauma of war, hopelessly lost in an illusion of his own making? Crossing genres and blending comedy with tragedy, Alfredo Véa imagines a world where we can rewrite our pasts and heal the wounds inflicted by history. Inviting comparisons to the work of James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges, Junot Díaz and Michael Chabon, this powerful book is like nothing else you have ever read.

Pacific Air

Author : David Sears
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0306819481
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Air written by David Sears and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an account of the U.S. airmen's roles in the air battles that took place over the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

Summary of James Bradley's Flyboys

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669377113
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Summary of James Bradley's Flyboys written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-03T22:59:00Z with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had developed a professional relationship with Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, after the publication of my first book, Flags of Our Fathers. In early February 2001, she suggested I contact a man named Bill Doran in Iowa. He had some interesting information. #2 The transcript contained the full proceedings of a trial establishing the fates of eight American airmen who were downed in the vicinity of Iwo Jima during World War II. The airmen were charged with destroying Chichi Jima’s communications stations, and they were the first to engage in combat aviation in large numbers. #3 The American Flyboys, who fought in the Pacific in 1945, were part of an air war that dwarfed the land war below. The endgame in the northern Pacific was the incineration of Japan, and this required two layers of bombers in the sky. #4 The eight Flyboys’ brothers and sisters, girlfriends, and aviator buddies gave me photos, letters, and medals. I tracked down the families and friends of the Flyboys who could only tell me so much.

Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

FLYBOY IN THE BUTTERMILK: ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICA

Author : Greg Tate
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9781501136979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book FLYBOY IN THE BUTTERMILK: ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY AMERICA written by Greg Tate and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most original, creative, and provocative culture critics comes an eye-opening collection of essays and tales about American music and culture. Under the guise of writing about a single subject, Greg Tate’s essays in Flyboy in the Buttermilk branch out from his usual and explore social, political, and economic subjects. Taking on a wide diversity of subjects from irony of the GOP recruiting Blacks to the crisis of the Black intellectual and the music Miles Davis, James Brown, and many others, Tate writes in a brave and distinctive voice that is angry, joyous, anxious, and funny. In every piece of this collection, Tate offers informed insight into where America is going and why.

Arizona's Hispanic Flyboys 1941-1945

Author : Rudolph C. Villarreal
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595257178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Arizona's Hispanic Flyboys 1941-1945 written by Rudolph C. Villarreal and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of Airforce personnel from Arizona, including their hometowns.

Farm Boy To Fly Boy

Author : Col[Ret] G. Brennand
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525504967
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Farm Boy To Fly Boy written by Col[Ret] G. Brennand and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his childhood growing up in Depression-era rural Manitoba to his rise through the ranks to become a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Col Gordon Brennand’s memoir, Farm Boy to Flyboy, is as much a history of the RCAF in the twentieth century as it is an account of his own life. Born a bit too late to participate in WWII, Gordon was inspired by Canada’s involvement in the Korean War to pursue a life in the military. After a failed start in the Navy, he enlisted with the Air Force with faint hopes of perhaps becoming a fighter pilot. Not only did he succeed, he logged four thousand hours on various jet aircraft types including over 1100 hours on the F-86 Sabre, which was the state-of-the-art fighter jet throughout most his thirty-four-year career, not to mention hundreds of hours on various other types of aircraft. He experienced several close calls during that time, including one incident when he had to eject and another when he had to force land due to engine failure. He went on to command two bases and has spent time living in most Canadian provinces as well as Germany, where he served for three years during the Cold War. Fascinating and insightful, this book will appeal to those who are fascinated by the military and flying as well as those who are simply seeking a first-person account of what life was really like for the men and women who served in the RCAF throughout one of the most pivotal periods of twentieth-century history.

Love Under Two Flyboys

Author : Cara Covington
Publisher : Siren Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781610348553
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Love Under Two Flyboys written by Cara Covington and published by Siren Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M] When she emergency lands her uncle's new plane at their airfield, Tamara Jones reluctantly agrees to accept Morgan and Henry Kendall's help in getting the Piper fixed. She may even indulge in some fun and games with the two sexy flyboys, but she knows there's no way they could really be aiming for forever. The brothers Kendall fire her jets, but she knows better than to trust in love. Blood will tell, and there's no way she wants to end up like her parents, racking up exes at the speed of sound. It doesn't take Morgan and Henry long to understand that Tamara has commitment issues. With enough time, they know they can show her they all have what it takes for the long haul. But then a stranger comes to town, and there are questions about the plane she arrived in, and soon keeping her takes a back seat to keeping her safe. ** A Siren Erotic Romance

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask

Author : Jim Munroe
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517734541
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask written by Jim Munroe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryan is a university student dealing with the normal problems of a 22-year-old guy -- shyness, virginity, weird roommates, and a massive crush on Cassandra, a waitress at his local greasy spoon. (Oh, and a freakish ability to change into a fly.) When he finally gets up the nerve to ask Cassandra for a date, he learns that the two have more in common than they first thought. (Turns out that Cassandra can make things disappear.) Sharing their secrets for the first time, Ryan and Cassandra realize they were made for each other...and to battle forces of evil! Inspired by Sailor Moon, they team up to fight the villians in their own backyard, taking on cigarette barons, right wing newspapers, and the overzealous local police. But can the Superheroes for Social Justice transform the world in time? Find out in.. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Clipped Wings

Author : Molly Merryman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479805785
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Clipped Wings written by Molly Merryman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a Legacy During World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, however, was made up entirely of women who undertook dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men. Within military hierarchies, the World War II pilot was perceived as the most dashing and desirable of servicemen. "Flyboys" were the daring elite of the United States military. More than the WACs (Army), WAVES (Navy), SPARS (Coast Guard), or Women Marines, the WASPs directly challenged these assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. WASPs flew the fastest fighter planes and heaviest bombers; they test-piloted experimental models and worked in the development of weapons systems. Yet the WASPs were the only women's auxiliary within the armed services of World War II that was not militarized. In Clipped Wings, Molly Merryman draws upon military documents—many of which weren’t declassified until the 1990s—congressional records, and interviews with the women who served as WASPs during World War II to trace the history of the over one thousand pilots who served their country as the first women to fly military planes. She examines the social pressures that culminated in their disbandment in 1944—even though a wartime need for their services still existed—and documents their struggles and eventual success, in 1977, to gain military status and receive veterans’ benefits. In the preface to this reissued edition, Merryman reflects on the changes in women’s aviation in the past twenty years, as NASA’s new Artemis program promises to land the first female astronaut on the moon and African American and lesbian women are among the newest pilot recruits. Updating the story of the WASPs, Merryman reveals that even in the past few years there have been more battles for them to fight and more national recognition for them to receive. At its heart, the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots is not about war or planes; it is a story about persistence and extraordinary achievement. These accomplished women pilots did more than break the barriers of flight; they established a model for equality.

FlyBoys Book of Poetry Volume 2

Author : Fly Ty Unchained
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 131216414X
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book FlyBoys Book of Poetry Volume 2 written by Fly Ty Unchained and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here it is! After having so much success with Volume one of my Poetry series, I decided to come right back with out hesitation with Volume 2. In this work, I expand a little deeper on different topics plaguing my community as a whole. There's a lot of blood sweat and tears in these pages but the vivid pictures painted make you feel like you're right there as things are happening. I thank you for taking the time out of your life to read my thoughts in rhyme. I appreciate you. Fly Ty Unchained [email protected]

Stealing Air

Author : Trent Reedy
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545469899
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Stealing Air written by Trent Reedy and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't just ask for the chance to fly . . . When his dad announced they were moving to Iowa, Brian looked forward to making some new friends. But on his first day there he makes an enemy instead -- Frankie Heller, the meanest kid in town. Brian needs to hang out with someone cool to get back on track. . . .Alex has always been the coolest guy around, and good with money, just like his dad. But now the family is struggling, and he needs to make some cash to keep up appearances. Then an opportunity falls in his lap . . . .Max is a scientific genius, but his parents are always busy with their own work. Building an actual plane should get their attention -- if only he wasn't scared of heights . . . The answer to all three boys' problems starts with Max's secret flyer. But Frankie and the laws of popularity and physics stand in their way. Can they work together in time to get their plan AND their plane off the ground?