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| Item Call Number |
D 790 W45 1995 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17869 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 790
- Item number - W45 1995
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Whitcomb, Col Ed.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - On celestial wings /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ed Whitcomb.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Air University Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1995.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xv, 212 pages
- Dimensions - 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-191).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Navigators of the First Global Air Force -- Prelude to War -- Death on a Bright Sunday Morning -- Attacks on Clark Field -- George Berkowitz -- Harry Schreiber -- William Meenagh -- Regroup -- Richard Wellington Cease -- Paul E. Dawson -- George Markovich -- War Plan Orange III -- Carl R. Wildner -- Harry McCool -- Merrill Kern Gordon, Jr. -- Francis B. Rang -- Corregidor -- William Scott Warner -- Jay M. Horowitz -- The Supre Fortresses -- Boselli and the Sacred Cow -- New Hope -- Bataan to Santo Tomas -- Deliverance -- A Visit with Charlie -- APPENDIX: History -- Class of 40-A -- Bibliography -- ILLUSTRATIONS: Figure 1: Route of Horowitz POW Ship -- Figure 2: Route of Horowitz POW Ship (Greater Range) -- Figure 3: Individual Combat Record -- Figure 4: Author's Identification As Civilian Internee -- PHOTOGRAPHS: Photo Section
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "In August 1940 a group of young men from all parts of the United States converged upon Coral Gables, Florida, to become cadets in a military navigation training program. Raised as children of the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s, what they wanted more than anything else in life was to fly airplanes. They had all volunteered for the US Army Air Corps with hopes for becoming pilots but the Air Corps had other ideas. They would become navigators on the world's finest bomber, the B-17 Flying Fortress.
The cadets did not think of themselves as warriors. None of them had ever seen a Flying Fortress. They were civilians who wanted to fly and joining the Air Corps was a means to that end. The thought of flying where man had never flown before or of bombing cities all around the world was farthest from their minds as they struggled with the intricacies of celestial navigation.
On Celestial Wings tells of the development of the first program to mass produce celestial navigators as America geared up for entry into WWII. It also tells of heartrending tragedies resulting from America's lack of preparedness for war and the fight against overwhelming odds in experiences of members of the US Army Air Corps Navigation School class of 40-A. It tells of their honors and victories and their disappointments and bitter defeats in a war unlike any that will ever occur again."
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - United States
- Subordinate unit - Army Air Forces
- Chronological subdivision - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - History.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Flight navigators
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Pacific Area
- General subdivision - Campaigns.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
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