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Devotion : an epic story of heroism, friendship, and sacrifice / by Makos, Adam,author.(CARDINAL)400552;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-443).
Subjects: Biographies.; Brown, Jesse Leroy.; Hudner, Tom, 1924-2017.; United States. Navy; United States. Navy; African American fighter pilots; Fighter pilots; Interracial friendship.; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean War, 1950-1953; Rescues;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II / by Makos, Adam,author.(CARDINAL)400552;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-381) and index.Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the great cathedral, where he took a shot immortalized by a chance photograph--and where he would later forge a friendship with the German tanker he tragically dueled soon after.
Subjects: Biographies.; Smoyer, Clarence, 1923-; United States. Army. Armored Regiment, 32nd; United States. Army; Tank crews; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; M26 (Tank); Panther (Tank); World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 41 / Total copies: 44
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Devotion : an epic story of heroism and friendship / by Makos, Adam,author.(CARDINAL)400552;
Ghosts and Shadows -- The Lesson of a Lifetime -- Swimming with Snakes -- The Woods -- The Renaissance Man -- This Is Flying So Far, So Fast -- The Ring -- The Pond -- One for the Vultures -- A Time for Faith -- A Deadly Business -- A Knock in the Night -- The Dancing Fleet -- The Reunion -- Only in France -- The Friendly Invasion -- At First Sight -- On Waves to War -- The Longest Step -- The Last Night in America -- The Beast in the Gorge -- Into the Fog -- This Is It -- Trust -- He Might Be a Flyer -- Home -- The First Battle of World War III -- The Sky Will Be Black -- A Chill in the Night -- A Taste of the Dirt -- When the Deer Come Running -- Backs to the Wall -- A Smoke in the Cold -- The Lost Legion -- Burning the Woods -- Into Hell Together -- All the Faith in the World -- Unease -- With Deep Regret -- To the Finish -- The Gift -- The Call from the Capital -- The Message -- Afterword."A young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that details the true story of two Navy pilots from divergent racial and economic backgrounds who forge a deep friendship during the Korean War as they face extraordinary circumstances." --Amazon.comLieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, both Navy pilots during the Korean War in 1850, come from different backgrounds: Hudner is a white New Englander, a son of privilege; Brown is an African American son of a sharecropper from Mississippi. When the two men join forces in Fighter Squadron 32, they forge a deep friendship at a time when racial inequality is prevalent in America. An unwavering commitment binds Tom and Jesse to each other as well as the comrades. The two fly to save a division of US Marines cornered during the battle at Chosin Reservoir, but catastrophe strikes when one of them is shot down behind enemy lines and trapped in the wreckage of his plane. The other will face an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die, or attempt history's most audacious one-man rescue mission. What transpires is harrowing and heartbreaking, an inspirational story for all time.--Inside cover.Ages 12 up770L
Subjects: Biographies.; Young adult.; Young adult literature.; Hudner, Tom, 1924-2017.; Brown, Jesse Leroy.; United States. Navy; United States. Navy; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean War, 1950-1953; Rescues; Fighter pilots; African American fighter pilots; Interracial friendship.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 16
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Devotion [sound recording] : an epic story of heroism, friendship and sacrifice / by Makos, Adam.(CARDINAL)400552; Hoffman, Dominic.(CARDINAL)481113;
Read by Dominic Hoffman.The inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo: Lieutenant Tom Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Ensign Jesse Brown, an African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi. The heir to a Massachusetts grocery store empire, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighter planes for his country. Jesse, fascinated by aircraft since childhood, defied the odds-and the prejudices of his time-to become the Navy's first black carrier pilot.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Brown, Jesse Leroy.; Hudner, Tom, 1924-2017.; United States. Navy; United States. Navy; African American fighter pilots; Corsair (Fighter plane); Fighter pilots; Fighter pilots; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean War, 1950-1953; Rescues;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Voices of the Pacific : untold stories from the Marine heroes of World War II / by Makos, Adamauthor.(CARDINAL)400552; Brotherton, Marcus,author.(CARDINAL)474865;
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; United States. Marine Corps; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Marines;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 16
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A higher call / by Makos, Adam.(CARDINAL)400552; Alexander, Larry,1951-(CARDINAL)470138;
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
Subjects: Biographies.; Brown, Charlie, 1922-2008.; Stigler, Franz, 1916-2008.; Bomber pilots; Bombing, Aerial; Fighter pilots; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 15
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A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II / by Makos, Adam.(CARDINAL)400552; Alexander, Larry,1951-(CARDINAL)470138;
Includes bibliography.A stranger in my own land -- Follow the eagles -- A feather in the wind -- Fire free -- The desert amusement park -- The stars of Africa -- The homecoming -- Welcome to Olympus -- The unseen hand -- The Berlin bear -- The farm boy -- The quiet ones -- The lives of nine -- The boxer -- A higher call -- The third pilot -- Pride -- Stick close to me -- The downfall -- The flying sanatorium -- We are the air force -- The squadron of experts -- The last of the German fighter pilots -- Where bombs had fallen -- Was it worth it?Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead and it was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called "the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II " this is the true s tory of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day: Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 - and the German - Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at each other. The American 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as "top secret." For forty years they would search for each; a last as old men,a last mission that could change their lives forever.
Subjects: Biographies.; Brown, Charlie, 1922-2008.; Stigler, Franz, 1916-2008.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Bombing, Aerial; Bomber pilots; Fighter pilots;
Available copies: 34 / Total copies: 39
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A higher call : an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II / by Makos, Adam,author.(CARDINAL)400552; Alexander, Larry,1951-(CARDINAL)470138;
A stranger in my own land -- Follow the eagles -- A feather in the wind -- Fire free -- The desert amusement park -- The stars of Africa -- The homecoming -- Welcome to Olympus -- The unseen hand -- The Berlin bear -- The farm boy -- The quiet ones -- The lives of nine -- The boxer -- A higher call -- The third pilot -- Pride -- Stick close to me -- The downfall -- The flying sanatorium -- We are the air force -- The squadron of experts -- The last of the German fighter pilots -- Where bombs had fallen -- Was it worth it?This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Brown, Charlie, 1922-2008.; Stigler, Franz, 1916-2008.; United States. Marine Corps; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Marines;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 5
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Spearhead [sound recording] : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II / by Makos, Adam,author.(CARDINAL)400552; McClain, Johnathan,1970-narrator.(CARDINAL)603175;
Read by Johnathan McClain.When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner's seat of his Sherman tank, his crewmates discover that the gentle giant from Pennsylvania has a hidden talent: He's a natural-born shooter. At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division--"Spearhead"--thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next. Soon a pattern emerged: The lead tank always gets hit. After Clarence sees his friends cut down breaching the West Wall and holding the line in the Battle of the Bulge, he and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge their fallen brothers: the Pershing, a state-of-the-art "super tank," one of twenty in the European theatre. But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility: Now they will spearhead every attack. That's how Clarence, the corporal from coal country, finds himself leading the U.S. Army into its largest urban battle of the European war, the fight for Cologne, the "Fortress City" of Germany. Battling through the ruins, Clarence will engage the fearsome Panther in a duel immortalized by an army cameraman. And he will square off with Gustav Shcaefer, a teenager behind the trigger in a Panzer IV tank, whose crew has been sent on a suicide mission to stop the Americans. As Clarence and Gustav trade fire down a long boulevard, they are taken by surprise by a tragic mistake of war. What happens next will haunt Clarence to the modern day, drawing him back to Cologne to do the unthinkable: to face his enemy one last time.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Smoyer, Clarence, 1923-; United States. Army. Armored Regiment, 32nd; United States. Army; Tank crews; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; M26 (Tank); Panther (Tank); World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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A higher call [sound recording] an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II by Makos, Adam.(CARDINAL)400552; Alexander, Larry,1951-aut(CARDINAL)470138; Dean, Robertson.nrt(CARDINAL)543792;
Read by Robertson Dean.This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day--the American, Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German, Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz's harrowing missions during the war. Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American Eighth Air Force would later classify as top secret. It was an act that Franz could never mention without facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Brown, Charlie, 1912-2008.; Stigler, Franz, 1916-2008.; Bomber pilots; Bombing, Aerial; Fighter pilots; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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