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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the "Bomber Mafia", asked:...
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Central Nevada Museum
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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"Tonopah Army Air Field was one of many military centers created during WWII. Its mission was to train P-39 and B-24 pilots and crews. The Glide Bomb, a forerunner to the 21st century Smart Bomb, was also tested in secret in the Nevada desert. Presented are the air field history, archival films of the assembly and bomb tests, an interview with a team leader, films of war drops and a discussion with a Nellis Air Force Base pilot on the evolution...
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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A portrait of American fighter pilot John Boyd examines his distinguished military career during the Korean War and his postwar efforts to transform the American military with his revolutionary theories of conflict.
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and children, placing them in an internment camp where they...
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