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This book tells the saga of three extraordinary aviators: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle, and how they redefined heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond, including daring military raids and survival-at-sea. With the world in peril in World War II, each...
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Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2010
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IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Provides an account of Thaddeus Lowe's efforts to provide intelligence to Union forces during the American Civil War, detailing how he managed to telegraph messages to the War Department in Washington from a silk hydrogen balloon that floated over the battlefields.
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
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In 1916, just thirteen years after the Wright brothers' first flight, a group of twenty-eight college students, and sons of America's early 20th century aristocracy, decided to try the sport of motorized flight and formed a campus flying club. The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockerfeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives...
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