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From POW to Blue Angel

Author : James Lowell Armstrong
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806182024
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book From POW to Blue Angel written by James Lowell Armstrong and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. “Dusty” Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story—a fast-paced drama teeming with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a true American hero. Jim Armstrong has drawn on extensive interviews and Dusty’s scrapbooks and flight logs to produce a rare account of the Blue Angels in the late 1940s. Readers will experience the stress of practice and the exhilaration of air shows as Armstrong takes them inside Dusty’s cockpit during the era when the Blues first found fame, perfecting their trademark formations and maneuvers. This book is also a moving account of the degradation that Rhodes suffered for three years as a prisoner of war, and includes his rare, ground observer’s view of the firebombings of Tokyo and Yokohama. Armstrong poignantly captures Dusty’s return to a changed postwar America, and also recounts his tour as a fighter pilot in Korea. From POW to Blue Angel is an intimate story of service and survival that will carve a place in naval aviation history—and inspire all who keep their eyes skyward.

From POW to Blue Angel

Author : Jim Armstrong
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806154233
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book From POW to Blue Angel written by Jim Armstrong and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. “Dusty” Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story—a fast-paced drama teeming with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a true American hero. Jim Armstrong has drawn on extensive interviews and Dusty’s scrapbooks and flight logs to produce a rare account of the Blue Angels in the late 1940s. Readers will experience the stress of practice and the exhilaration of air shows as Armstrong takes them inside Dusty’s cockpit during the era when the Blues first found fame, perfecting their trademark formations and maneuvers. This book is also a moving account of the degradation that Rhodes suffered for three years as a prisoner of war, and includes his rare, ground observer’s view of the firebombings of Tokyo and Yokohama. Armstrong poignantly captures Dusty’s return to a changed postwar America, and also recounts his tour as a fighter pilot in Korea. From POW to Blue Angel is an intimate story of service and survival that will carve a place in naval aviation history—and inspire all who keep their eyes skyward.

Blue Angel

Author : Nadine Monaco
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 150920492X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Blue Angel written by Nadine Monaco and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical therapist Jennifer Wade is unable to put the pieces of her life back together again after her Navy pilot fiancé dies in a plane accident. Flyer Paul Davis, her fiancé's best friend, feels responsible for the tragedy. When Jennifer and Paul must work together two years after the accident, they are stunned by their mutual attraction. They share a pained past, yet their current chemistry is undeniable. But this is a relationship that cannot be. Jennifer needs stability for herself and her deceased fiancé's baby, and Paul must focus on getting fit and back in the cockpit. When Paul is offered the position of his dreams, they both need to decide if love can ever be enough.

The Lucky

Author : H. Lee Barnes
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874179009
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Lucky written by H. Lee Barnes and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfolding from the bygone era of 1950s Las Vegas through the turbulent decades that followed, this epic novel examines the universal search for identity and reward in a world where the good life always seems out of reach. The streets of early Las Vegas are a tough place for a boy to grow up. Pete Elkins is fatherless, living in a cramped apartment with his mother, a party-girl with a penchant for falling in love with the wrong kind of man; and his older sister, who has grown up too fast from trying to parent both her brother and their reckless mother. Pete is headed for serious trouble when he is befriended by Willy Bobbins, a casino owner with a murky past and even murkier business practices. But Willy is also deeply compassionate and wise, and he soon becomes a surrogate father for the lonely Pete. Gradually, Pete becomes involved with Willy’s troubled family and comes to know both the scope of his mentor’s power and the depth of his vulnerabilities.

Blue Angels

Author : Marga R. Fritze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610607841
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Blue Angels written by Marga R. Fritze and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Navy's elite pilot group, and discusses their aircraft and the types of manuevers they perform at air shows.

The Blue Angel - The Life and Films of Marlene Dietrich

Author : David Stuart Ryan
Publisher : kozmik press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Angel - The Life and Films of Marlene Dietrich written by David Stuart Ryan and published by kozmik press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Marlene Dietrich's life is the story of the 20th century. Author David Stuart Ryan who wrote the bestselling biography 'John Lennon's Secret' explores the amazing and circuitous route that took her to Hollywood and riches. But to understand the essential Marlene it is necessary to go right back in time to the era of La Belle Epoque when a very feudal and settled order still existed in Europe. 'The Blue Angel' transports you to a glittering world that is all about to disappear in the maelstrom of world war. What emerges from the conflict is a feverish gaiety that seeks to put behind it all the suffering that has taken place. You are entering the Jazz Age and a Berlin that having suffered hyperinflation decides anything goes. The Berliner Luft - the Berlin air - is what the locals call it. This madcap atmosphere was to be recreated by a young journalist - Billy Wilder - when he made the journey to Hollywood. Indeed, the plot for his greatest film, 'Some Like It Hot', drew on his experiences in Berlin, and Billy Wilder was one of the respondents to the author when he came to write Marlene's story. Marlene's big break came when she played a vampish nightclub singer of dubious morals, not a million miles away from her own background trying to survive in a world turned upside down. 'The Blue Angel' took her to America and a carefully constructed film star image which embodies all the dazzling wealth and influence of Hollywood at its most powerful and hypnotic. Yet the more you get into the life of Marlene Dietrich, the greater the mystery becomes. Who was she really? Only now can the expert analysis of David Stuart Ryan reveal the true Marlene Dietrich, the person behind the image, the human being behind the facade. Was she indeed the blue angel?

The Lucky Loadmaster

Author : Thomas F. Stalvey
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468539647
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book The Lucky Loadmaster written by Thomas F. Stalvey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lucky Loadmaster is an action packed book. It does not matter whether you are with the airmen in Vietnam, the first night of TET or just reading about the author's hair raising childhood adventures. Sometimes growing up and learning defensive moves in a small middle North Carolina town can be interesting. For the first time, a book written that is about the honest daily occurrences and multiple battles of a real airman in Vietnam. These were battles like others, in which people died and others became heroes. Battles in which crews looked death in the face multiple times each day, flying into places without the security of arms or cover, the stress of actual war. Tom Stalvey's wishes to enlist and study at the great Air Force electronics schools at the time, did not come to pass, instead he was assigned to the very élite and extremely dangerous rolls of an enlisted aircrew member. The courses these young men completed were at the considered complete college courses equal to obtaining a degree in a matter of months. The duty aboard the Lockheed C-130 Hercules as a Weight and balance Technician or Loadmaster was and still is essential. He was destined to end up in Vietnam. after two and a half years of training and protocol Only a slight recess was given these airmen as these young men were handed the keys to three fourths of a C-130 aircraft. Most of them averaged 22 years of age. Trained at doing their jobs by the book they soon learned that doing so in Vietnam could cost time and lives. Great at modifying plans on the run, many were awarded our nation's highest war time decorations. Laugh out loud as you follow a young boy into what must have been The start of The Lucky Loadmaster's ironic heavenly inspired protection and cry for the pain of his broken body!

Citizen Airman

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Airman written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blue Angels: A Fly-By History: Sixty Years of Aerial Excellence

Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1610607554
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Angels: A Fly-By History: Sixty Years of Aerial Excellence written by Nicholas A. Veronico and published by . This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz

Author : the late Leonard Feather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199886407
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz written by the late Leonard Feather and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his first trumpet? From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings to television specials, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have left no stone unturned in their quest for accurate, detailed information on the careers of 3.300 jazz musicians from around the world. We learn that Duke Ellington worked his magic at The Cotton Club from 1927 to 1931, and that on Miles Davis's thirteenth birthday, his father gave him his first trumpet. Jazz is fast moving, and this edition clearly and concisely maps out an often dizzying web of professional associations. We find, for instance, that when Miles Davis was a St. Louis teenager he encountered Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie for the first time. This meeting proved fateful, and by 1945 a nineteen-year-old Davis had left Juilliard to play with Parker on 52nd Street. Knowledge of these professional alliances, along with the countless others chronicled in this book, are central to tracing the development of significant jazz movements, such as the "cool jazz" that became one of Miles Davis's hallmarks. Arranged alphabetically according to last name, each entry of this book chronologically lists the highlights of every jazz musician's career. Highly accessible and vigorously researched, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz is, quite simply, the most comprehensive jazz encyclopedia available.

Blue's Memoirs

Author : Joseph A. L. “Blue” Blais
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645307492
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Blue's Memoirs written by Joseph A. L. “Blue” Blais and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLUE MEMOIRS By: Blue Blais BLUE MEMOIRS: Faces, Places, and Lives of a U.S. Spy/Counterspy is the remarkable adventure of a French-American born in Maine who diligently worked, zealously played, and lived life to the fullest in numerous neighborhoods of the world. Blue Blais has had a bountiful array of diverse Faces as an Aircraft Mechanic, Flight Engineer, Pilot, Spy, Counterspy, and Diplomat while fluent in French, Spanish, and English. Among much else gained while in America’s Special Forces, Blue became an expert small arms marksman and developed skill in Karate, Garrote, and Savate. He was a Skin Diver, Sky Diver, Tennis Player, Downhill Skier, Sports Car Racer, Sailor, husband, lover, and father. Blue served his country in many thrilling and dangerous Places, including Vietnam, Honduras, Thailand, Venezuela, Zaire, Finland, Germany, Tanzania, the United States, the Azores, and New Zealand. Incredibly, he has out-distanced a feline’s pedestrian nine Lives, having already used up eleven. While in Vietnam, he was shot out of the sky twice and escaped attempted bombing two other instances. In 1978, Blue was headed toward certain death with the Georgetown Guiana Kool-Aid Drinking Suicide of the Jim Jones Cult followers. 1998 in Tanzania, Blue survived a lethal explosive for a third time, in the bombing of the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam. There was no escape even in Homestead, Florida, where Blue was shot at and lived to tell the tale. He survived two horrendous car accidents in Maine and Kinshasa, Zaire, nearly drowned skin diving in the Azores, and played with fire on a perilous DEA Operation in Medellin, Colombia.

Looking Back

Author : Betty Jo Baca
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467046000
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Looking Back written by Betty Jo Baca and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since I was a small child I have loved storytelling. The right words could make you see things in your mind. I want my short stories to open your mind to what it was like growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. So we will be Looking Back at my Barnes family in Whitehaven after WWII, pre-Graceland, Yes, we grew up two miles from Graceland as the Rock and Roll age began, through the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the early Beatle Years and what life was like back then.

Madam President

Author : Wesley E. Hall
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595098533
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Madam President written by Wesley E. Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wesley Hall, after retiring emeritus professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University, in Springfield, moved to Dragon Fly Cove on the Lake of the Ozarks, where he resides with his wife, Sharon, and their Persian cat, Malcolm. There he writes a newspaper column and surfs the Internet.

Hitman

Author : Bret Hart
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371468
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Hitman written by Bret Hart and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his own words, Bret Hart’s honest, perceptive, startling account of his life in and out of the pro wrestling ring. The sixth-born son of the pro wrestling dynasty founded by Stu Hart and his elegant wife, Helen, Bret Hart is a Canadian icon. As a teenager, he could have been an amateur wrestling Olympic contender, but instead he turned to the family business, climbing into the ring for his dad’s western circuit, Stampede Wrestling. From his early twenties until he retired at 43, Hart kept an audio diary, recording stories of the wrestling life, the relentless travel, the practical jokes, the sex and drugs, and the real rivalries (as opposed to the staged ones). The result is an intimate, no-holds-barred account that will keep readers, not just wrestling fans, riveted. Hart achieved superstardom in pink tights, and won multiple wrestling belts in multiple territories, for both the WWF (now the WWE) and WCW. But he also paid the price in betrayals (most famously by Vince McMahon, a man he had served loyally); in tragic deaths, including the loss of his brother Owen, who died when a stunt went terribly wrong; and in his own massive stroke, most likely resulting from a concussion he received in the ring, and from which, with the spirit of a true champion, he has battled back. Widely considered by his peers as one of the business’s best technicians and workers, Hart describes pro wrestling as part dancing, part acting, and part dangerous physical pursuit. He is proud that in all his years in the ring he never seriously hurt a single wrestler, yet did his utmost to deliver to his fans an experience as credible as it was exciting. He also records the incredible toll the business takes on its workhorses: he estimates that twenty or more of the wrestlers he was regularly matched with have died young, weakened by their own coping mechanisms, namely drugs, alcohol, and steroids. That toll included his own brother-in-law, Davey Boy Smith. No one has ever written about wrestling like Bret Hart. No one has ever lived a life like Bret Hart’s. For as long as I can remember, my world was filled with liars and bullshitters, losers and pretenders, but I also saw the good side of pro wrestling. To me there is something bordering on beautiful about a brotherhood of big tough men who pretended to hurt one another for a living instead of actually doing it. Any idiot can hurt someone. —from Hitman

Dreddlocked

Author : Stephen Marley
Publisher : 2000 AD Books
ISBN 13 : 1849979669
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Dreddlocked written by Stephen Marley and published by 2000 AD Books. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mister Cairo, private eye and wild psi-talent, has been hired to find a missing alien call-girl. The only clue her abductors have left is an Inverted Tarot card: The World, turned upside down. But, following her trail into the dark Undercity, confronting Under Judges and ancient stars of the silver screen, Cairo realises that far more than one girl's life is at stake. He begins to uncover a plot that has its roots in his own suppressed past; a plot to release Lethal Reality on the citizens of Mega-City One. As his investigation uncovers betrayal and corruption at the very highest levels, he is forced to confront the man who killed his mother and put him in the Juve-cubes: Judge Dredd, the man he has sworn to kill.

Lobian and the White Lights

Author : Karla Jade Porro
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1625164513
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Lobian and the White Lights written by Karla Jade Porro and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great city of Merridon, and indeed the whole world, is under threat from The Shadow of Darkness and his fearful army of twisted soldiers. These dark forces are gaining strength and planning to destroy the few remaining White Lights, the guardians of good. The fair Eleanor, keeper of the White Lights, asks her leading knight, Lobian, to undertake a daring quest to the Imperial Mountains in order to find and fulfill an ancient prophecy. After many dangerous adventures, the stage is set for the greatest battle of all: the battle to save the White Lights and all that they cherish. This action-packed science fiction novel will thrill readers of all ages with its depiction of light versus darkness, a quest for a prophecy and a race against time, as well as love, friendship, and betrayal.