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On celestial wings / Ed Whitcomb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitcomb, Edgar D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army Air Forces--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- United States.
- United States. Army Air Forces.
- Flight navigators--United States--Biography.
- Flight navigators.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Military campaigns.
- Pacific Area.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Personal narratives, American.
- Biographies
- History
- Personal narratives -- American
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. : Air University Press, [1995]
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- The first Army Air Corps navigational class at Miami University graduated in November 1940. In this book, Colonel Whitcomb follows these first celestial navigators through their World War II trials. Twenty-five personal stories and a series of photographs paint the stories of these men as they fought--combining the ancient art of navigating by the stars with the equipment on their B-17s, became prisoners of war, lived through the Bataan Death March, escaped from Japanese captors, survived primitive conditions in the Philippines, died for their country, or later served the US as navigators on the aircraft of presidents and dignitaries.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed May 30, 2003).
- "November 1995."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Whitcomb, Edgar D. On celestial wings
- ISBN:
- 1429492376
- 9781429492379
- OCLC:
- 52626473
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