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Handleman, Philip.
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Handleman, Philip.
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd.
United States. Army Air Forces -- Black troops.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Black.
Air pilots, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.)
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Handleman, Philip.
Handleman, Philip.
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd.
United States. Army Air Forces -- Black troops.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Black.
Air pilots, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.)
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Soaring to glory : a Tuskegee airman's firsthand account of World War II / Philip Handleman with Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr.
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Handleman, Philip.
Regnery History, 2019.
Call #:
940
.544973
H236s
Subjects
Handleman, Philip.
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd.
United States. Army Air Forces -- Black troops.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Black.
Air pilots, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.)
ISBN:
9781621579519 (hc.)
Description:
xv, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
Contents:
Dogfight -- "The Guts to Fly This Thing" -- The Sky Beckons -- Aiming High -- Saving the Experiment -- Trains before Planes -- The Quest for Silver Wings -- "Your Friends of the nd Fighter Group" -- "A Sight to Behold!" -- Showdown at Five Thousand Feet -- At the Mercy of the Winds of Fate -- The Best of the Best -- Harry Truman Keeps His Promise -- A Dream Deferred -- An Everlasting Beacon -- A Grateful Nation -- Keeping the Dream Alive -- Affirming the Legacy.
Summary:
"He had to sit in a segregated rail car on the journey to Army basic training in Mississippi in 1943. But two years later, the twenty-year-old African American from New York was at the controls of a P-51, prowling for Luftwaffe aircraft at five thousand feet over the Austrian countryside. By the end of World War II, he had done something that nobody could take away from him: He had become an American hero. This is the remarkable true story of Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Award-winning aviation writer Philip Handle man recreates the harrowing action and heart-pounding drama of Stewart's combat missions, including the legendary mission in which Stewart downed three enemy fighters. Soaring to Glory also reveals the cruel injustices Stewart and his fellow Tuskegee Airmen faced during their wartime service and upon return home after the war. Stewart's heroism was not celebrated as it should have been in postwar America -- but now, his boundless courage and determination will never be forgotten."--Publisher.
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Memoirs.
Other authors:
Stewart, Harry T., Jr.
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