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This book is, simultaneously, a biography of Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.S. Navy’s lighter-than-air program. As tensions rose between Japan and the U.S. over control of East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, the prospects of war between the two nations increased. The Navy tracked the Germans’ use of zeppelins during the First World War and saw in them an aircraft with the potential to conduct long-range reconnaissance over the oceans – something that could not be achieved by airplanes or surface ships. While rapid progress was being made in manned flight, it was still young enough that the future of LTA vs. HTA flight was unknown. At the time, however, airships had a ...
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This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
The Defining Line takes you through the story of Charles “Chuck” Bennis’s Greek immigrant heritage, his childhood in Lincoln, Illinois, and his rise to All-American football player at the University of Illinois. Amidst stories of his first fight, his first love, and difficult moments that truly defined him, you follow Chuck through his struggles and successes in his college football career (which led to a role in the movie The Big Game), and you see Chuck transform to a courageous and compassionate man through glimpses of the other defining period of his life — serving in World War II.