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Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Film about newly-trained pilots in World War II, their by-the-book leader, and the plans of the U.S. naval leaders to lull the Japanese into a false sense of superiority. Includes actual combat footage.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug, it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and...
Author
Series
Centennial of flight volume no. 14
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
2346) Fifty-three days on Starvation Island: the World War II battle that saved Marine Corps aviation
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines between the U.S. and Australia. The night after the Marines...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author's father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a famed P-61 Black Widow, was leaving for the war. He and his night fighter squadron were sent to Iwo Jima, where, for the last five and a half months of World War II, he flew approximately seventy-five missions, largely in pitch-black conditions. His wife would wait...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing true story of U.S. Sergeant Ryan M. Pitts who received the Medal of Honor for his incredible acts of valor on the field of battle while serving in Afghanistan."--Provided by publisher.
2350) Chamber divers: the untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers--men and women--who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success"--
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
"When World War II comes to Myanmar, one special elephant becomes a hero. As people are forced to leave their home in the Burmese jungle, Bandoola, his keeper and war veteran James Howard Williams (Aka Elephant Bill), undertake a journey that will test their courage, and take their trust, understanding and bravery to the very limit. Together, they lead a group of 53 elephants and over 200 refugees to safety, scaling 6000ft mountains as they trek from...