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"From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight in history, and change the momentum of the War in the Pacific--but not without making the ultimate sacrifice."--Baker & Taylor.
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The real-life companion to the literary classic-written and illustrated by the daughter of the 340th Bomb Group's commander, Catch-22's Colonel Cathcart.
After the publication of his bestselling novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Heller in the 340th Bomb Group, the novel's characters were indeed recognizable-the hard-drinking,...
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IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Bullets whizzed overhead, narrowly missing twelve-year-old Johnny Clem. Although he had joined the Union army as a drummer boy, Johnny was prepared to protect himself and his fellow soldiers. Join Johnny on the battlefield as he fights to stay alive.
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1999.
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" ... With few exceptions, the assignments of regiments to a brigade were not permanent. Coburn's brigade was one such exception. In October 1862, while near Lexington, Kentucky, the 85th Indiana, the 33rd Indiana, the 19th Michigan, and the 22nd Wisconsin regiments were assigned to a brigade to be commanded by Colonel John Coburn. These four regiments remained in the same brigade ... until they were mustered out in June 1865, and thus shared the...
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1864
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This collection contains 2 sets of photocopies of Sydney C. Kerksis's typescript, "Action at Gilgal Church, Georgia, June 15-16, 1864." The typescript includes a narrative of the action, official reports, extracts of regimental reports, regimental histories and extracts from Civil War diaries. Pages 41, 50-51 of the typescript are missing. Also included in the collection is a booklet entitled, "Twelve Views of the Indianapolis Flood of March 1913...
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