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Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses how in the 1940s, women broke free from traditional gender roles by piloting aircraft both on the homefront and in combat, making critical contributions to the Allied victory in World War II.
Author
Publisher
Pelican Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Product Description: What became known as the Tuskegee Experience began in 1931 with a letter from the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People to the War Department asking that blacks be allowed to join the military. The efforts of early African American aviators, the struggle of organizations and individuals against the military's segregation policies, and the hard work of thousands of young men and women, military...
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Contains amazing air combat footage from WWII archives and firsthand accounts of the greatest air battes. The surviving fighter aces from all sides of the conflict provide vivid accounts of what it was like to be a fighter pilot in some of the most daring air battles of WWII.