Flight And Rescue

Author : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight and Rescue written by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of more than 2,000 Polish Jewish refugees who fled across the Soviet Union to Japan, where they awaited entrance visas to the United States and elsewhere.

Author : Susan Elisabeth Subak
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803230176
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescue and Flight written by Susan Elisabeth Subak and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers the little-known story of the Unitarian Service Committee, which rescued European refugees during World War II, and the remarkable individuals who made it happen. The Unitarian Service Committee was among the few American organizations committed to helping refugees during World War II. The staff who ran the committee assisted those endangered by the Nazi regime, from famous writers and artists to the average citizen. Part of a larger network of American relief workers, the Unitarian Committee helped refugees negotiate the official and legal channels of escape and, when those methods failed, the more complex underground channels. From their offices in Portugal and southern France they created escape routes through Europe to the United States, South America, and England, and rescued thousands, often at great personal risk.

Author : Emilio Corsetti
Publisher : Odyssey Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0977897109
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 35 Miles from Shore written by Emilio Corsetti and published by Odyssey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.

Author : Capt. W.E. Johns
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667629654
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BIGGLES AND THE RESCUE FLIGHT written by Capt. W.E. Johns and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Fortymore can’t believe his brother is dead so he conceives a desperate plan. He’ll run away from school, ‘borrow’ a plane and fly off to France to find him. In the chaos of the First World War, he and his friend manage to get away with it until they’re rumbled by their Flight Commander—Biggles.

Author : Jerry Grayson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472917960
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescue Pilot written by Jerry Grayson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy's Search and Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure and an ordeal. Whether rescuing a wounded fighter pilot who has ditched in the sea, saving desperate survivors from a sinking ship, or picking up a grievously ill crewman from the deck of a nuclear-armed submarine that is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Soviet navy, Jerry Grayson has lived a life of unparalleled excitement and adventure. His finest hour came during the infamous Fastnet Yacht Race of 1979 in which 25 yachts were lost. When a catastrophic storm enveloped the competitors he and his crew pushed their Wessex helicopter to its absolute limits and put their own lives at risk, flying into hurricane-force winds to winch shipwrecked sailors from heaving tempestuous seas. An investiture at Buckingham Palace with Her Majesty the Queen was the result. Being a Rescue Pilot is a fast-paced career because there is no choice. Lives are at stake and pilots must move and think fast. Jerry Grayson's inside view of this heroic service is as inspirational as it is celebratory. Excitingly told, frequently funny but also very poignant, Jerry's story is not an account of just one man's deeds, it is a salute to all the men and women he worked with who were able to turn tragedies into triumphs. Includes a Foreword by HRH The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm.

Author : George Galdorisi
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 9780760323922
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leave No Man Behind written by George Galdorisi and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of a near-century of combat search and rescue, with an account of how the discipline was created and how it is administered—or neglected—today.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight and Rescue written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julie Orringer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307959414
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flight Portfolio written by Julie Orringer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge comes a gripping tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage filled with "suspense and tragedy, unexpected twists and deliverance” (The Seattle Times). • THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES TRANSATLANTIC MARSEILLE, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvard-educated journalist and editor, arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he and a group of like-minded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and immigrate to the United States. Amid the chaos of World War II, and in defiance of restrictive U.S. immigration policies, Fry must procure false passports, secure visas, seek out escape routes through the Pyrenees and by sea, and make impossible decisions about who should be saved, all while under profound pressure—and in a state of irrevocable personal change. In this dazzling work of historical fiction—one that illuminates previously unexplored elements of Fry’s story, and has, since its publication, brought us new insight into his life.

Author : Colonel Edward L. Fleming
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471264361
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart of the Storm written by Colonel Edward L. Fleming and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance praise for Heart of the Storm "Col. Ed Fleming tells a story of true heroism about the constant dangers faced by the pilots and crews who fly the most versatile-and vulnerable-aircraft in the skies today." -John Glenn, former U.S. senator, astronaut, and bestselling author of John Glenn: A Memoir "To risk your life to save a stranger is the highest mark of a human being. Ed Fleming is such a man, and this book is a great read." -Dr. Jerri Nielsen, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Ice Bound "Filled with suspense and emotion, Heart of the Storm reads like a thriller-but it's all true. Ed Fleming has led a dramatic and interesting life, and this book portrays it in living color." -Robert K. Tanenbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Resolved and Absolute Rage

Author : Yehuda Bauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight and Rescue: Brichah written by Yehuda Bauer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the mass movement of 300,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust out of Eastern Europe and their eventual resettlement in Palestine.