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Author : Yancy Mailes
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531629717
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Gowen Field written by Yancy Mailes and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gowen Field, located south of Boise's air terminal, is home to Idaho's adjutant general, the state's Army and Air National Guard, and to U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps reserve units in the Boise area. Named in honor of Lt. Paul R. Gowen, a Caldwell native who died in an aircraft crash in 1938, Gowen Field was opened in the spring of 1941. Throughout World War II, the Army Air Forces used the field to train B-17 and B-24 aircrews for duty in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. Following World War II, the field was offered to the state of Idaho for use by the Air National Guard. Since that time, the Idaho Air Guard has operated numerous aircraft, including, but not limited to, the F-51, F-86, F-102, RF-4C, and the F-4G. Today the Idaho Air Guard operates the A-10 and C-130.
Author : Rachel Smythe
Publisher : Amber Pen Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780976165705
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Entertaining Strangers written by Rachel Smythe and published by Amber Pen Pub.. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Boise, Idaho during WWII, with emphasis on its relationship with Gowen Field Air Base. Chapters are devoted to the city's initial struggle to secure a military air base, the changes and challenges the incoming military population brought, and the development of a close & positive relationship between the two groups.
Author : Students from Idaho State University’s MGT 4499/5599 Class
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439670366
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Idaho in World War II written by Students from Idaho State University’s MGT 4499/5599 Class and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although far from the front lines of war, the people of Idaho contributed to the US effort in World War II in myriad ways. Entrepreneurs perfected the dehydration of potatoes and onions that became staples of the rations that sustained Allied troops stationed around the globe. Idahoans mined rare metals and manufactured them into weapons and munitions that allowed US forces to compete with the technologies of their opponents. Local communities organized USO huts that provided coffee, cookies, and warm smiles to homesick troops in transit to and from the war. However, World War II also left an indelible mark on the state of Idaho. On the one hand, the federal government's ambitious construction of airports, buildings, and roads to support the war effort transformed a rural state that had lacked infrastructure. On the other hand, Idaho soil housed detention camps where American citizens were denied fundamental rights. And loss and heartbreak impacted nearly every community.
Author : Yancy Mailes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738548234
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Gowen Field written by Yancy Mailes and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gowen Field, located south of Boise's air terminal, is home to Idaho's adjutant general, the state's Army and Air National Guard, and to U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps reserve units in the Boise area. Named in honor of Lt. Paul R. Gowen, a Caldwell native who died in an aircraft crash in 1938, Gowen Field was opened in the spring of 1941. Throughout World War II, the Army Air Forces used the field to train B-17 and B-24 aircrews for duty in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. Following World War II, the field was offered to the state of Idaho for use by the Air National Guard. Since that time, the Idaho Air Guard has operated numerous aircraft, including, but not limited to, the F-51, F-86, F-102, RF-4C, and the F-4G. Today the Idaho Air Guard operates the A-10 and C-130.
Author : Jerome M. O'Connor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493030396
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Hidden Places of World War II written by Jerome M. O'Connor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Hidden Places of WWII, the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made. These are sites that were thought to be closed or locked away forever or, in some cases, thought never to exist at all, or were ignored by military historians for decades. With historical photos, contemporary photos, and written in a conversational style, the book opens the eyes of a new generation of readers, as well as an older generation, and takes them to the actual locations that changed history. Many military history readers don’t know that you can still visit Nazi U-boat pens in Lorient and La Rochelle on the French Atlantic coast (they were used in the filming of Raiders of the Lost Ark) and even pieces of the Atlantic Wall Hitler had built along the French coast in ’43 and ’44 to thwart the invasion he knew was coming. These are only two of the many hidden places the author introduces the reader to.
Author : Gary Bedingfield
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786458208
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Baseball's Dead of World War II written by Gary Bedingfield and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most fans know that baseball stars Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, and Bob Feller served in the military during World War II, few can name the two major leaguers who died in action. (They were catcher Harry O'Neill and outfielder Elmer Gedeon.) Far fewer still are aware that another 125 minor league players also lost their lives during the war. This book draws on extensive research and interviews to bring their personal lives, baseball careers, and wartime service to light.
Author : Deborah Jean Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190664525
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Land Speaks written by Deborah Jean Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land Speaks explores the intersections of two vibrant fields, oral history and environmental studies. The fourteen oral histories collected here range North America, examining wilderness and cities, farms and forests, rivers and arid lands. The contributors argue that oral history can capture communication from nature and provide tools for environmental problem solving.
Author : William T. Y'Blood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II written by William T. Y'Blood and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915915
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Six: Men and Planes written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William C. Atkinson
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457539519
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)
Download or read book The Jolly Roger written by William C. Atkinson and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There were no visible flames, only intense, searing heat. At once, his entire flight suit caught fire, and with no conscious thought he reached for his parachute at his feet against the waist window bulkhead. Instinctively, he tucked it under his arms like a football and dove through the open window, the force of the leap tearing loose the attachments to the airplane of his headphones, throat microphone and oxygen mask.” From The Jolly Roger James C. Atkinson began life the descendant of an impoverished farming family in rural east-central Mississippi. While a high school senior, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force and, like so many young men of his generation, left his home to fight for his country in WWII. After a year of rigorous training, he was qualified as a Radio Operator/Gunner on a B-24 bomber, and what began as the adventure of a lifetime for Sgt. Atkinson, ended in horror and tragedy in the war-torn skies over Ploesti, Romania. Though this is Dr. Atkinson’s personal story, it is not unique. Rather, it is representative of the stories of legions of young men from the Greatest Generation who would face the challenge of rebuilding their lives aft er rising from the ashes of the most destructive war in history.
Author : Ralph H. Schneck
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557536406
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Cheerio and Best Wishes written by Ralph H. Schneck and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of a young boy from Posey County, Indiana, who had a dream to fly. The outbreak of World War II enabled him to fulfill that dream. Cheerio and Best Wishes is told entirely through the letters he wrote to his family and friends. Detailed narrative and commentary provide explanation and background information.One hundred thirty-eight letters are presented in this book. It is highly unusual to find this many letters from one person, curated by his family and recently rediscovered by his son, along with carefully created photograph albums. The story starts in rural southern Indiana and follows the young volunteer as he goes westward to California and New Mexico to be trained to fly bombers. From the United States, he travels via South America and North Africa to England and deploys with the Eighth Air Force. The accounts of his journeys and experiences are detailed, ranging from entertaining to spine-tingling. Moments of high drama intermingle with the mundane nature of war.Together the letters and pictures in this book (the originals are now preserved for posterity in the Purdue University Flight Archives) offer a comprehensive and cohesive story of how US airmen were prepared and trained for war, and detail the daily experience of a bomber pilot flying missions over Germany. The letters of one young flyer reflect the experience of thousands of Americans who volunteered to go to war in the 1940s. His experiences were those of a generation.
Author : James Benjamin Weatherby
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870045219
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Governing Idaho written by James Benjamin Weatherby and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press" Idaho is a state with many varied interests vying for political control. Whether it be in the politically liberal north, the staunchly conservative southeast or the rapidly changing southwest of the state, the social and political factors that determine who gains power in the Gem state often flies in the face of logic and makes for an interesting study in contrasts.
Author : Richard Phillip Lawless
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636242065
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Nightstalkers written by Richard Phillip Lawless and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never-before-told story of the 868th Bomb Squadron, the Nightstalkers, who paired cutting-edge technology with daring—launching single-aircraft night-time missions stalking the Japanese in the Pacific. In August 1943, a highly classified US Army Air Force unit, code-named the “Wright Project,” departed Langley Field for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific to join the fight against the Empire of Japan. Operating independently, under sealed orders drafted at the highest levels of Army Air Force, the Wright Project was unique, both in terms of the war-fighting capabilities provided by classified systems the ten B-24 Liberators of this small group of airmen brought to the war, and in the success these “crash-built” technologies allowed. The Wright airmen would fly only at night, usually as lone hunters of enemy ships. In so doing they would pave the way for the United States to enter and dominate a new dimension of war in the air for generations to come. This is their story, from humble beginnings at MIT’s Radiation Lab and hunting U-boats off America’s eastern shore, through to the campaigns of the war in the Pacific in their two-year march toward Tokyo. The Wright Project would prove itself to be a combat leader many times over and an outstanding technology innovator, evolving to become the 868th Bomb Squadron. Along the way the unit would be embraced by unique personalities and the dynamic leadership, from Army Air Force General Hap Arnold through combat commanders who flew the missions. In this account, the reader will meet radar warfare pioneers and squadron leaders who were never satisfied that they had pushed the men, the aircraft, and the technologies to the full limit of their possibilities. Comprehensive and highly personal, this story can now be revealed for the very first time, based on official sources, and interviews with the young men who flew into the night.
Author : Valerie Smart
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738509105
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Original Hell's Angels written by Valerie Smart and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om U.S. army Air Force's 303rd Bombardment Group, som under den 2. verdenskrig fløj B-17. Under krigen fløj denne enhed 48 missioner uden at miste et eneste fly og uden at miste besætningsmedlemmer. Forfatteren beskriver i bogen om Hell's Angels operationer.
Author : Stacy Erickson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788127403
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book A Field Notebook for Oral History written by Stacy Erickson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents, in simple outline form, basic information about the oral history process. A step-by-step outline to procedures, techniques, problems and organizational methods which have proved most useful. Primarily directed towards those who have no experience with oral history. Covers: the interview (research, framing questions, indexing, etc.), technical issues (equipment, and preservation of the audio tape), planning a project (goal setting, project organization, funding), oral history in education, professional organizations, sample forms, and bibliography.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Military Construction Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
