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Book Synopsis TO FILL SKIES W/PILOTS PB by : PISANO DOMINICK A
Download or read book TO FILL SKIES W/PILOTS PB written by PISANO DOMINICK A and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 2001-03-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in 1939, the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was one of the largest government-sponsored vocational education programs of its time. In To Fill the Skies with Pilots, Dominick A. Pisano explores the successes and failures of the program, from its conception as a hybrid civilian-military mandate in peacetime, through the war years, and into the immediate postwar period. As originally conceived, the CPTP would serve both war-preparedness goals and New Deal economic ends. Using the facilities of colleges, universities, and commercial flying schools, the CPTP was designed to provide a pool of civilian pilots for military service in the event of war. The program also sought to give an economic boost to the light-plane industry and the network of small airports and support services associated with civilian aviation. As Pisano demonstrates, the CPTP's multiple objectives ultimately contributed to its demise. Although the program did train tens of thousands of pilots who later flew during the war (mostly in noncombat missions), military leaders faulted the project for not being more in line with specific recruitment and training needs. After attempting to adjust to these needs, the CPTP then faced a difficult and ultimately unsuccessful transition back to civilian purposes in the postwar era. By charting the history of the CPTP, Pisano sheds new light on the politics of aviation during these pivotal years as well as on civil-military relations and New Deal policy making.
Book Synopsis The Sky Rained Heroes by : Frederick E. LaCroix
Download or read book The Sky Rained Heroes written by Frederick E. LaCroix and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I asked for action, and I'm really getting it. We had our toughest mission to-date, yesterday. It was a bombing-strafing job on destroyers, and they really threw up the fireworks. It gives you a funny feeling to see all the ack-ack coming and still have to keep on going in. It is a feeling of acute anticipation and mild curiosity-the latter as regards whether it is your turn to get hit. I like combat pretty well. I guess it is a natural desire to like destruction. If you've ever seen six streams of tracers hosing into a target, I think you'd know what I mean. I've flown an awful lot lately (9 hours a day), and hope I can keep it up. However, some replacements came in today, so they will probably ease up a little on the rest of us. I'd rather keep up the steady flying, though. P. S. Guess you've been praying for me quite a bit. At any rate, someone has. Keep it up. There really are no atheists here. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Aviation Weather for Pilots and Flight Operations Personnel by : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Download or read book Aviation Weather for Pilots and Flight Operations Personnel written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis SEGREGATED SKIES PB by : SANDLER STANLEY
Download or read book SEGREGATED SKIES PB written by SANDLER STANLEY and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 1998-07-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sandler does a fine job of emphasizing the unjustness of the segregation policy as well as the excellence of the men who flew in segregated skies. He provides a good look at this lesser known aspect of (World War II).--"Retired Officer". 38 photos.
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Download or read book Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print 1997 by : Bowker Editorial Staff
Download or read book Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print 1997 written by Bowker Editorial Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 2776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THEY ALSO FLEW PB written by ARBON L and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 1998-02-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history and achievements of enlisted pilots from 1912, when a Corporal volunteered for pilot training, through 1942, They Also Flew records the personal sagas of men determined to serve their country in the air.
Download or read book Heroic Endeavour written by Sean Feast and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-12-19 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This WWII combat history offers a detailed chronicle and analysis of an RAF Pathfinder Squadron’s ill-fated operation over Cologne. On December 23rd, 1944, an elite squadron of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command engaged in a courageous yet tragic daylight raid on the Gremberg railway yards in Cologne, Germany. One of the war’s most significant raids, it is scarcely mentioned in history books. Yet it was an operation in which its leader won the Victoria Cross, and a future VC fought a similarly heroic battle. It was also a harrowing ordeal in which ordinary men lost their lives doing extraordinary things. In Heroic Endeavour, aviation historian Sean Feast tells the story of this fateful raid from two different perspectives. In the first part, he presents a gripping narrative recreation of the events as they unfolded. In the second, he shares retrospective interviews with survivors from both sides, as well as an analysis of what went wrong and why.
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Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 3126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Courage in the Skies by : James Edgar Johnson
Download or read book Courage in the Skies written by James Edgar Johnson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of aerial epics has been written by two of the Royal Air Force's best-known wartime leaders. Illustrated, the book features military and naval air operations from the open-cockpit fighting of World War I to the recent high technology encounters of Operation Desert Storm. The allies' devastating day and night bombing offensive in World War II stands side by side with advanced aircraft development and sophisticated weaponry of Korea and Vietnam, the Israeli Wars and the Falklands. Spanning 75 years, this book is a compendium of 20th century warfare.
Book Synopsis I Chose the Sky by : Leonard H. Rochford
Download or read book I Chose the Sky written by Leonard H. Rochford and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, insightful, and nail-biting account by a World War One veteran—a Grub Street Classic previously out of print for more than thirty years. In these exciting memoirs, “Tich” Rochford writes about his two action-filled years as a World War I fighter pilot with the famous No. 3 (Naval) Squadron when he flew planes such as the Sopwith Pup and the Sopwith Camel. While flying many hundreds of hours in operations he was credited with many single-handed victories or driven out of control, and he vividly recalls these engagements in the air and the exploits of the pilots with whom he flew, names that include other fighter aces like Raymond Collishaw, who has written a foreword to this book, T. F. Havell, R. H. Mulock and L. S. Breadner. A member of his flight, Lt. Col. Kirkpatrick said of him, “I always had the impression that what he did came naturally to him. If he saw an enemy aircraft and decided to attack, that was that. He went screaming down on it and we all had our work cut out to keep up with him. One could be pretty sure of the victim going down in flames.” “This excellent autobiography is highly recommended.” —Over the Front
Book Synopsis Sniper of the Skies by : Nick Thomas
Download or read book Sniper of the Skies written by Nick Thomas and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When asked to conjure an impression of the 'typical fighter pilot', you may be inclined to think of the confident, extroverted, gregarious type, rallying his men and flying in the pursuit of victory. George Frederick 'Screwball' Beurling, DSO, DFC, and DFM, certainly achieved more victories than most typical fighter pilots dream of, but in temperament, personality and style, he was a one-off. A devout Christian, teetotaler and non-smoker, Beurling wasn't to be found patronising the local bars with his fellow pilots. Instead, he committed himself solely to the art of aerial combat. His very first missions saw him pursuing lone German fighters that he ultimately destroyed. He was determined to retain focus, noting how the men who did indulge had much briefer and much less effective tours. In Maltese skies he really came into his own, shooting down 27 Axis aircraft in just 14 days. In the month of July 1942, he secured five 'kills' in just four days. In the process he was awarded the DSO, DFC and DFM, along with hero-status amongst his fellow pilots and members of the public. He survived the war, only to be killed three years later whilst landing a transport aircraft following a test flight. This biographical study serves as a tribute to one of the most successful and intriguing fighter pilots of the twentieth century, and should appeal broadly to fans of the genre.
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Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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