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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Tibbets -- Ferebee -- Van Kirk -- Sarasota -- Fortress Europa -- The generals and North Africa -- Interregnum -- Wendover -- Tinian -- The big one -- Hiroshima -- The rest of the story -- Appendix. The near-catastrophic Nagasaki mission. |
| Summary |
While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raid. Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee, and Ted #x93;Dutch" Van Kirk exemplified what Life Magazine meant when in 1942 it called the B-17 pilot, bombardier, and navigator #x93;the three musketeers of the Army Air Forces." A former navigator-bombardier and pilot himself, Harder brings a fresh perspective to an otherwise well-known narrative. He provides a rare insider's look at exactly who these three fellows were, how. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007.
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Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007. |
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Ferebee, Thomas, 1918-2000.
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Ferebee, Thomas, 1918-2000. |
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Van Kirk, Theodore Jerome, 1921-2014.
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Van Kirk, Theodore Jerome, 1921-2014. |
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United States. Army Air Forces -- Officers -- Biography.
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United States. Army Air Forces. |
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Biographies.
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Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Hiroshima-shi, Japan : 1945) |
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Bombardment of Nagasaki-shi (Nagasaki-shi, Japan : 1945) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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Bomber pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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Bomber pilots. |
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United States. |
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Bombardiers -- United States -- Biography.
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Bombardiers. |
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Flight navigators -- United States -- Biography.
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Flight navigators. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
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1939-1945 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Harder, Robert O. "Three musketeers of the Army Air Forces". Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2015] 9781612519029 (DLC) 2015020274 |
| ISBN |
9781612519036 (epub) |
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1612519032 |
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9781612519036 (mobi) |
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9781612519036 (epdf) |
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1612519024 |
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9781612519029 |
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9781612519029 (alkaline paper) |
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