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Author Leeke, Jim, 1949- author.

Title The turtle and the dreamboat : the Cold War flights that forever changed the course of global aviation / Jim Leeke.

Publication Info. Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 248 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "This is the first detailed account of the historic race for long-distance flight records between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy after World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Truculent Turtle (Airplane)
Pacusan Dreamboat (Airplane)
United States. Army -- Aviation -- History -- 20th century.
United States. Army.
Aeronautics, Military -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Naval aviation -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautics -- United States -- Flights -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
HISTORY / Military / Aviation.
Naval aviation.
Armed Forces -- Aviation.
Aeronautics, Military.
Aeronautics -- Flights.
United States.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
ISBN 9781640125209 (electronic bk.)
1640125205 (electronic bk.)
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9781640124134 (hardcover)
1640125205 (hardcover)