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1) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
Author
Publication Date
2000
Language
English
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Description
“From the training camps to the combat missions, this is war from the perspective of the young Americans who lived through it: the pilots, the bombardiers, the navigators, and the gunners of all the combat services in both Europe and in the Pacific. It is an engaging and vivid portrayal of war in the skies from 1941 to 1945.”—Craig L. Symonds, Author of World War II at Sea
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Author
Series
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales volume 7
Publication Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States joined World War II. And soon after that, young pilots were recruited for a very secret--and dangerous--raid on Japan. No one in the armed forces had done anything like this raind before, and none of the volunteers expected to escape with their lives. But this was a war unlike any other, before, which called for creative thinking as well as bravery."-- Page 4 of cover.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Publication Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1942, two ace fighter pilots--one American and one Japanese--faced off during a dramatic dogfight in the skies over Guadalcanal. Eventually the Japanese pilot shot down the American, who crash landed behind enemy lines but managed to escape before being captured. Using both pilots' comprehensive memoirs and following a forensic expedition to the recently found American plane, this program examines and re-creates every anxious second...
Author
Publication Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Author
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway. Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD Dauntless into a near-vertical dive aimed at the heart of Japan's Imperial Navy, which six months earlier had ruthlessly struck Pearl Harbor. Within a three-day period he became the only pilot from either side to land hits on three different ships, all of which sank-- losses that crippled the once-fearsome Japanese fleet....
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce--the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother's estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He's just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she'll be damned if the good-looking...
Author
Publisher
Capstone High/Low Books
Publication Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Introduces the various kinds of World War II trainer planes, describes the missions for which they were used, and sketches the training required of their pilots.
15) A time for war
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Publication Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his plane is shot down on June 6, 1944, D-Day, paratrooper Private Michael Donovan must find a way to survive and locate his platoon.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air-meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on "the Hump,"...
Author
Publisher
Caliber
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Shoot for the Moon and A Terrible Glory comes the dramatic story of the courageous paratroopers and glidermen of the 82nd Airborne, who risked their lives to seize and secure a small, centuries-old bridge in France that played a pivotal role in the success of D-Day"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Publication Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Soviet Night Witches flew over 30,000 missions in planes made of almost nothing more than plywood and canvas. Learn more about the origin of the Night Witches and the amazing women who flew these missions and were indispensable to the war effort in WWII.