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Author
Publisher
Farmers Insurance Group
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Second to None is a series celebrating the achievements of American women. The documentary consists of six episodes, each approximately 15 minutes in length. The episodes inspire, educate and promote understanding of the issues and obstacles that have confronted women throughout America's history. The extraordinary stories related in the documentary are often told by the women themselves who overcame the odds to do great things. Second to None begins...
Author
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman is the memoir of an African American man who, through dedication to his goals and vision, rose through the despair of racial segregation to great heights of accomplishment, not only as a military aviator, but also as an educator and as an American citizen. Unlike other historical and autobiographical portrayals of Tuskegee airmen, Harold H. Brown's memoir is told from its beginnings: not on the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
More than 1,100 women volunteered to be a U.S. WASP (Women's Air Service Pilot) to contribute to World War II. Read about the courageous women who put their lives on the line to do their part in the nation's war effort.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring and riveting first-ever memoir of active combat by a female helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan. Amber Smith flew into enemy fire in some of the most dangerous combat zones in the world. One of only a few women to fly the Kiowa Warrior helicopter -- whose mission, armed reconnaissance, required its pilots to stay low and fly fast, perilously close to the fight -- Smith deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the elite 2-17...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The wonder of flight has long captured the human imagination. In this beguiling history ranging from the first aircraft to astronauts and beyond astronomer David Darling tells the stories of the true life adventurers whose wonder has translated into bizarre contraptions, magnificent achievements and, sometimes, startling folly.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Climb into the cockpit of an exact replica of the fabled Spirit of St. Louis to experience a riveting hour-by-hour reenactment of the danger, doubts and fatigue endured by the young Charles Lindbergh on his record-shattering flight across the Atlantic. Featuring rare archival footage.