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| Item Call Number |
D 785 .U63 B76 1993 |
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Available |
| Barcode |
17963 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1560981962 (hardbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 785 .U63
- Item number - B76 1993
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Brownstein, Herbert S.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Swoose :
- Remainder of title - odyssey of a B-17 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Herbert S. Brownstein.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Washington :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Smithsonian Institution Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1993.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - ix, 212 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations ;
- Dimensions - 23 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-203) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Birth of a veteran -- Beginning of the Pacific sojourn -- Combat operations -- Command airplane in Australia -- The Swoose in the news -- Diplomatic operations -- The long road home
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "The story of a famous Flying Fortress, The Swoose recounts the history of the oldest surviving B-17 aircraft not only to have flown in combat during World War II but also to have fought from the very first day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It continued to fly as General George Brett's command ship in Australia and Central and South America until the end of the war and afterward. Like its namesake from a popular 1940s song ("Alexander the Swoose, Half Swan-Half Goose"), the Swoose was a hybrid, with a tail structure, rudder, and elevators from another aircraft and, later, with wings, wheels, and brakes from still other B-17s.
Herbert S. Brownstein highlights the Swoose's pioneering flight across the Pacific from the United States, its round-trip flight between Australia and Hawaii that broke speed records, and its celebrity passengers, including Lyndon B. Johnson, General George Brett, and Lowell Thomas. The Swoose recalls the dark days shortly after Pearl Harbor, when a handful of men in their early-model B17s fought vainly to halt the advance of the invading Japanese forces in the "backyard war" in the Philippines. During the first forty-four days of the war, the Swoose and its counterparts in the 19th Bombardment Group shot down fifty fighters and sank or damaged sixty ships. Drawing on historic photographs and firsthand accounts of pilots, crew members, and passengers, Brownstein chronologically follows the Swoose from its maiden flight in April 1941 to its last, almost thirteen years later, on December 5, 1953, and then to its permanent home in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Swoose (Airplane)
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Aerial operations, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Pacific Area.
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