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Quest for Flight
The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that history’s nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the ...
Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War
A concise and unique reference work central to any serious examination of the Army2s involvement in World War I. Reproduced in 5 volumes, the original volume numbering and consecutive pagination remain unchanged to assist researchers using citations to the first printing.
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Security and Personnel Practices and Procedures of the Department of State
"The purpose of this hearing before the International Operations Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations is to receive testimony concerning some phases of the case of John C. Montgomery, a former official of the State Department, who was found dead at his home in the Georgetown section of Washington on January 23, this year ... In a more general sense, this inquiry is being made by this subcommittee in fulfillment of its assigned responsibility to examine the administrative policies and practices of the Department of State."--P. 1.
