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Weekend pilots : technology, masculinity, and private aviation in postwar America /

"After August 1945, millions of U.S. servicemen formed a tidal wave of people returning to civilian life--locating or returning to work, heading to school under the GI Bill, marrying and starting families. With much profit, historians in various fields have examined this effort to recover norma...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyer, Alan, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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