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Charlesbridge
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English
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"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.
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English
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Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was...
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was...
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Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
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Presents the life and career of the Chinese American woman who dreamed of flying as a child and who went on to become one of only two Chinese American Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to serve during World War II.
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English
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U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was shot down in his F-16 over Bosnia while helping to keep the peace. The plane exploded, and Captain O'Grady fell 5 miles to the ground below. In exciting detail, Captain O'Grady tells how he evaded capture and how, with little water and no food, he was able to survive on his own in enemy territory. This is a thrilling look at an American hero—a hero not because the captain survived, but because of the...
13) Aircraft pilot
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Cherry Lake
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
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Discusses what an aircraft pilot does and how to become one.
14) Drone pilot
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Examines what it takes to be a drone pilot, including what are drone pilots, who benefits from them, and what aircrafts can be flown by drone.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Near the end of WWII, a Navy pilot meets and falls in love with a beautiful California girl. They have a brief two weeks together before he is shipped off to the South Pacific. This is an engaging collection of his letters, compiled by the daughter he never got to meet. Full of poignant detaila chronicle of the passions and fears of wartimethe book is the ultimate love story of America's "greatest generation.
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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It is September 1940--a year into the war--and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal, intelligent, beautiful-but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Follows two men--both of whom went to the same school and fought in the same war, but who never met because one was white and one was black--as they meet fifty years after World War II and join forces to tell young people why race once made all the difference--and why it shouldn't matter anymore.
20) WASPS
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World Book/Bolt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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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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