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  • Colorado's Daring Ivy Baldwin

    Aviator, Aerialist & Aeronaut

    At the beginning of the twentieth century, aerialist Ivy Baldwin had achieved celebrity status as a premier tightrope walker, aeronaut and aviation pioneer. He executed astonishing and perilous performances across America and internationally, including Mexico and the Far East. First by flying balloons, he went on to pilot dirigibles and, finally, aircraft. In his later years in Colorado, he became ... Leer más

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  • Lowry Air Force Base

    Series series Images of America
    From 1937 to 1994, Lowry Air Force Base, located on the eastern edge of the city of Denver, served the nation and the surrounding community in many distinguished ways. The air base, primarily a technical training center, graduated more than 1.1 million enlisted members and officers in skills ranging from armament to photography, tremendously strengthening the country�s war efforts in World War II, ... Leer más

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  • Commander and Builder of Western Forts

    The Life and Times of Major General Henry C. Merriam, 1862-1901

    During his thirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to prominence in the Western army, and exerted significant influence on the American West by establishing military posts, protecting rail lines, and maintaining an uneasy peace between settlers and Indians.Historian Jack Stokes Ballard’s new study of ... Leer más

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  • The Great Air Race

    Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation

    The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919—and put American aviation on the map.Years before Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competing in the sensational transcontinental air ... Leer más

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  • Military Moments Ww Ii

    American civilians who were on the home front during World War II would each have different stories to tell. With most, almost certainly their stories would not be as dramatic as the stories of many of those who lived in the battle zones of Europe and the Far East. Despite the difference, there would be many moving stories to tell of Americans who lost loved ones or received them home wounded or ... Leer más

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  • Tuskegee Airman 4th Edition

    Colonel Charles E. McGee fought in World War II in Korea and in Vietnam. He holds the record for the highest three-war total of fighter combat missions of any pilot in the U.S. Air Force history. His military service began as one of the Tuskegee Airmen in the 332nd famed pioneers who fought racial prejudices to fly and fight for their country in World War II. They are the ones who achieved the ... Leer más

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  • The God Machine

    From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter

    From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who contributed to the development of this ... Leer más

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  • Forgotten Souls

    The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen

    NPR investigative journalist and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, Cheryl W. Thompson explores the stories of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen – the Black pilots who fought for America in WWII – who went missing in combat, the lives they lived, the reasons their planes went down, why the remains of all but two were never found, and the impact their disappearances had on their families and communities.In ... Leer más

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  • Mavericks of the Sky

    The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail

    "A surprisingly exciting history" of the US Air Mail Service's early years and the daredevil pilots who risked their lives ( Publishers Weekly)."An enthralling saga, told in a smooth and agile style."— Associated PressNicknamed "the Suicide Club," the pilots of the air mail service were a brash collection of World War I aces who returned as heroes from Europe looking for a way to continue their ... Leer más

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  • Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Southern Nevada

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    Series series Images of America
    "[A] photo-packed look at Southern Nevada's boom-and-bust civic casualties" ( Las Vegas Review-Journal).Ghost towns and mining camps are the last remaining vestiges of the Old West; there is a mystique surrounding these places that has made exploring them a pastime for many in the western United States. Nevada has more than a thousand of these boom-and-bust towns. Some are completely abandoned, ... Leer más

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  • Fly Girls

    The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII

    “A truly inspiring read.” —Booklist (starred review)“A solid account of women’s contributions as aviators during World War II.” —Kirkus ReviewsIn the tradition of Hidden Figures, debut author Patricia Pearson offers a beautifully written account of the remarkable but often forgotten group of female fighter pilots who answered their country’s call in its time of need during World War II.At ... ... Leer más

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  • In Hostile Skies

    An American B-24 Pilot in World War II

    Series series Military Biography and Memoir Series
    James Jim Davis lived what he considered an impossible dream as he piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly thirty missions in the European Theatre during World War II. In this memoir, Davis offers heart-wrenching detail concerning the difficulties of qualifying for the U.S. Army Air Forces pilot program, the strenuous nature of the pilot training program, the anxiety caused by a ... Leer más

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