Keep Your Airspeed Up : The Story of a Tuskegee Airman

"Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account. Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman is the memoir of an African American man who,...

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Autores principales: Brown, Harold H., 1924- (Autor), Bordner, Marsha S., 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Brown, Harold H., > 1924-
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Fighter Squadron, 99th.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Fighter Squadron, 99th > Biography.
Prisoners of war.
Military participation > African American.
Military operations, Aerial > American.
Fighter pilots.
African American air pilots.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands.
Prisonniers de guerre > Allemagne > Biographies.
Pilotes d'aeronef noirs americains > Biographies.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Prisoners of war > Germany > Biography.
Prisoners of war > United States > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American.
African American air pilots > Biography.
Fighter pilots > United States > Biography.
United States.
Germany.
Personal narratives > American.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. The Early Years; 1. My Family and Ancestry; 2. My Early Life in Minnesota; 3. My Love Affair with a Plane; 4. Bubba's Experience in the Military; Part II. The War Years; 5. I Just Wanted to Fly; 6. Flight Training: In the Air at Last; 7. The Transition to War; 8. The Trip Overseas and Commander B.O. Davis; 9. The Air Forces, the P-51, and Ramitelli Air Field; 10. Combat; 11. December 1944; 12. January to February 1945; 13. March 1945; 14. Nuremberg; 15. The March to Moosburg; 16. Liberation; 17. Going Home.
  • Part III. The Postwar Years18. To Stay or Not to Stay; 19. The Future Unfolds; 20. The Korean War; 21. Strategic Air Command; 22. Crises in America and My Decision to Leave the Military; 23. A New Career in Higher Education; 24. Fame; 25. Giving Back; 26. Breaking Par; 27. The Fourth Quarter; Notes; Index.

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