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2020 .
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""As a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army pilot David Porter was section leader in an Aerial Scout platoon in Vietnam. Their mission was to conduct reconnaissance in OH-6 aircraft (a.k.a. Light Observation Helicopter or "Loach") near the Cambodian border. Finding and engaging the enemy at low altitude in coordination with an AH-1 Cobra gunship circling above, these units developed a remarkable method of fighting the Viet...
202) The Tuskegee airmen
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Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is an account of the Army Air Corps' Tuskegee airmen who proved their fighting ability in World War II.
203) Unbroken
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Pub. Date
p2010
Description
In 1943, while World War II raged on in the Pacific Theater, Lieutenant Louis Zamperini was the only survivor of a deadly plane crash in the middle of the ocean. Zamperini had a troubled youth, yet honed his athletic skills and made it all the way to the 1934 Olympics in Berlin. However, what lay before him was a physical gauntlet unlike anything he had encountered before: thousands of miles of open ocean, a small raft, and no food or water.
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
The memoir of a woman test pilot in World War II. The author belonged to a corps of women pilots on the home front who for the most part delivered planes and tested repaired ones. In her case, however, she experimentally tested the B-29 Superfortress and the Bell YP-59A jet fighter. After the war she became a journalist and sailor, sailing all the way to Turkey.
205) When tigers ruled the sky: the Flying Tigers : American outlaw pilots over China in World War II
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Pub. Date
p2016
Description
From the acclaimed author of Hit the Target and Big Week, an in-depth account of the legendary World War II combat group, the Flying Tigers. In 1940, Pearl Harbor had not yet happened, and America was not yet at war with Japan. But China had been trying to stave off Japanese aggression for three years-and was desperate for aircraft and trained combat pilots. General Chiang Kai-shek sent military aviation advisor Claire Chennault to Washington, where...
209) WASPs
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) were American women who wanted to serve as members of the Army Air Force during World War II. Although there was resistance from some people who thought women couldn't be military pilots, eventually women were allowed to serve as pilots.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. James Scott deftly employs sharply etched portraits of individuals of all stations and nationalities to survey the global, technological, and moral backdrop of the cataclysm, including the searing experiences of Japanese trapped in a gigantic firestorm. This riveting account illuminates an historical...
216) Wings of honor
Author
Series
Black sabre chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Adrian Samuel Sharps has always led a military life, so when the United States joins World War II, he takes the sabre his father and grandfather carried into war and joins the Tuskegee Airmen, becoming one of the first African-American combat pilots in the Air Force.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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This gripping chronicle of an aerial rescue during the Vietnam War offers a vivid example of the heroism of US Air Force pararescue jumpers. In June of 1972, Capt. Lynn Aikman was returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom was shot down. He and his backseater Tom Hanton ejected from their aircraft, but Hanton landed near a village and was quickly captured. Badly injured during the ejection, Aikman landed some distance...
220) Tuskegee airmen
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"With primary source photos, infographics, timelines, charts and strongly controlled leveled text this title describes the heroic efforts of the African American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen who served during World War II"--Amazon.com