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In this book, Thomas recounts growing up on a ranch in Idaho during the Great Depression, playing baseball with Jackie and Mack Robinson, joining the Navy after Pearl Harbor, and serving as a TBM Torpedo Bomber pilot on aircraft carriers in the Atlantic and Pacific.
This is the epic story of Escape and Evasion during World War Two. Main character is Donald Kenyon Willis, an American pilot who fought with the Fins against the Russians in 1940, then joined the Norwegian Naval Air Arm against the Germans, escaped to the Shetlands, joined the RAF as one of the first Eagle Squadron pilots, until he joined the USAAF. After the war and a spell as a base commander in Austria and Germany he became a test pilot in JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) experiments from Wright-Patterson Air Base in Ohio, USA. He was one of the last five airmen to evade capture via de Pyrenees, the night before D-Day with American Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas H. Hubbard and 2nd Lieutenant Jack ...
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This important new book provides materials and analysis for law school classes on policing and the law. It offers a resource for students and others seeking to understand and evaluate how American law governs police interactions with the public. The book provides primary materials, including cases, statutes, and departmental policies, and commentary and questions designed to help readers explore policing practices; the law that governs them; and the law’s consequences for the costs, benefits, fairness, and accountability of policing. Among other issues, the notes and questions encourage readers to consider the form and content of the law; how it might change; who is making it; and how the ...
The exciting, captivating, exploits of a Virginia farm girl's quest for fame and fortune. She shared a secret with her Uncle that could destroy both their lives and their family. As they separately climbed the social ladder of Washington D.C. they found themselves entangled in a web of murder, deception, disappearances and dirty politics. They had unwittingly become major players in a blood bath that would shake the Capitol to its very foundation and alter history forever. The path to the White House and First Lady lay before her, but like Appian Way was lined with the bodies of family, friends and acquaintances. She had two ways to go, fame and fortune or love with happiness, they both had their price. Was the price too high, either way she could face rejection, prison or even death row. Was her dream to become her nightmare or was it to exceed her wildest expectations? A web that enveloped her was a complicated maze of deception and choices. A wrong choice could be costly, causing her to forfeit her freedom or even her life.