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Want to know more about Kansas history? View various articles from the past.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
109 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the contributions made to the Union's efforts in the Civil War by Thaddeus Lowe and a corps of hot air balloonists who helped spy on the Confederate army, despite becoming targets in the war themselves.
4) Air Force: an illustrated history : the U.S. Air Force from the 1910s to the twenty-first century
Author
Publisher
Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing
Pub. Date
2015, c2014
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
5) Black wings
Publisher
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the first African American aviators, examining the achievements of Bessie Coleman, William Powell, James Herman Banning, Thomas C. Allen, and Marlon Green.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked:...
Publisher
Humanus Documentary Films Foundation
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a privileged group of college students from Yale who formed a private air militia in preparation for America's entry into World War One. Known as the First Yale Unit, and dubbed "the millionaires' unit" by the New York press, they became the founding squadron of the U.S. Naval Air Reserve and were the first to fly for the United States in the Great War.
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