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45) Bridge of spies
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An author is looking for a man to play the leading role in the film version of her book when she meets returning World War II soldiers on a train, and she is determined to turn one of them into the needed actor.
48) Wasps
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) were American women who wanted to serve as members of the Army Air Force during World War II. Although there was resistance from some people who thought women couldn't be military pilots, eventually women were allowed to serve as pilots.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Unknown to the public and cloaked in the utmost secrecy, the United States flew missions against the Communist bloc almost continuously during the Cold War in a desperate effort to collect intelligence and find targets for all-out nuclear war. The only hint of the relentless, clandestine operations came when one of the planes was shot down. Many of the air force and navy flyers were killed on the top secret missions. But now, for the first time, historian...
50) The candy bomber
Publisher
KUED
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
To children living in the rubble of post-war Germany, it was candy from heaven. Some saw it as a sign that somebody in America cared about them. To Colonel Gail "Hal" Halvorsen, who became known worldwide as the Candy Bomber, the Berlin Airlift was healing balm on the wounds of war. He and his fellow American pilots dropped more than two million tons of supplies and 23 tons of candy to German citizens and children during the Berlin Airlift. KUED presents...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks at the mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, an area in Atlantic Ocean where ships and plane are reported to have disappeared, most famously a group of five military planes that became lost shortly after leaving Florida on December 5, 1945, never to be heard from again. Presented in graphic novel form.
54) The pilots
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
A novel told through a collection of vignettes follows the adventures of boyhood friends who take different military paths, a combat-weary flight surgeon, a captain with a troubled past, and a woman who affects all of them.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
�2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
John Leahr and Herb Heilbrun grew up in the same neighborhood, were in the same third grade class, and both were pilots in WWII; however, because of their racial differences, their lives never intersected. After 50 years, they met again and launched a mission to tell young people why race once made all the difference and why it shouldn"t anymore.
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