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| Item Call Number |
D 790 M33 1947 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
18526 |
| Library Of Congress Control Number |
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 790
- Item number - M33 1947
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
- Classification number - 940.544973
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - McKee, Philip.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Warriors with wings /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - [by] Philip McKee.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Thomas Y. Crowell Company,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1947
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 7 p. l., 266 pages ;
- Dimensions - 21 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Days of disaster / Fred T. Crimmins, Jr. -- "So many... so few" / Sam Alfred Mauriello -- A very quiet commando / Alvin J. H. Mueller -- Flying tigers / Albert J. Baumler and Gordon A. Kitzman -- The Williwaw War / Charles J. Paine -- Take and give at Guadalcanal / Robert W. Kirstetter -- Stand by to ditch! / Clyde S. Shields -- The guys who blew Wairopi / William F. Nolan and James R. Miller -- "Hit the silk!" / Charles A. Coon -- Last mission of the "Para-Dice" / Clinton W. Kirkpatrick -- Skipper of the "Werewolf" / George James Oxrider -- Lightning over the Mediterranean / Peyton S. Mathis, Jr. -- "Thi pilot is still breathing" / Walter A. Truemper and Archibald Mathies -- "I was just scared to death" / Paul G. McArthur -- Killer Kane of Ploesti / John R. Kane -- So they called him "gentle" / Don S. Gentile -- Ole man moe of the mountains / Verne H. Malloy -- A summer day over Bougainville / Jay Zeamer, Jr. -- Bong -- Richard I. Bong -- Ordeal by fire / Emmett O'Donnell
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "These are true stories of Americans--men you know or know of--who fought with the Army Air Forces during the Second World War. They were up there--in any plane that would fly and some that wouldn't--from the day that Fred Crimmins and the rest of them took a frightful beating at Pearl Harbor and Clark Field, until "Rosy" O'Donnell's boys were burning Tokyo right down to the ground. Some even earlier--like "Ajax" Baumbler, "Uncle Sam" Mauriello and "Gentle" Gentile--fought with the Loyalists in Spain, Chennault in China, and the Eagles in England.
There are stories of headline flyers, like Dick Bong, "Killer" Kane, and Jay Zeamer. But they were the very ones--the "hot rocks," the men with the Medal of Honor and all--who pointed out the deep truth in this book. It's this--that any boy, like the one who delivered your newspapers before the war, will do some terrific job if you send him up in the air to fight..."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Aerial operations, American.
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