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Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War details author and Professor Mary Lawlor’s unconventional upbringing in Cold War America. Memories of her early life—as the daughter of a Marine Corps and then Army father—reveal the personal costs of tensions that once gripped the entire world, and illustrate the ways in which bold foreign policy decisions shaped an entire generation of Americans, defining not just the ways they were raised, but who they would ultimately become. As a kid on the move she was constantly in search of something to hold on to, a longing that led her toward rebellion, to college in Paris, and to the kind of self-discovery only possible in the late 1960s. A personal narrative braided with scholarly, retrospective reflections as to what that narrative means, Fighter Pilot's Daughter zooms in on a little girl with a childhood full of instability, frustration and unanswered questions such that her struggles in growth, her struggles, her yearnings and eventual successes exemplify those of her entire generation. From California to Georgia to Germany, Lawlor’s family was stationed in parts of the world that few are able to experience at so young an age, but being a child of military parents has never been easy. She neatly outlines the unique challenges an upbringing without roots presents someone struggling to come to terms with a world at war, and a home in constant turnover and turmoil. This book is for anyone seeking a finer awareness of the tolls that war takes not just on a nation, but on that nation’s sons and daughters, in whose hearts and minds deeper battles continue to rage long after the soldiers have come home.
Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War details author and Professor Mary Lawlor’s unconventional upbringing in Cold War America. Memories of her early life—as the daughter of a Marine Corps and then Army father—reveal the personal costs of tensions that once gripped the entire world, and illustrate the ways in which bold foreign policy decisions shaped an entire generation of Americans, defining not just the ways they were raised, but who they would ultimately become. As a kid on the move she was constantly in search of something to hold on to, a longing that led her toward rebellion, to college in Paris, and to the kind of self-discovery only possible in the late 1960s. A personal narrative braided with scholarly, retrospective reflections as to what that narrative means, Fighter Pilot's Daughter zooms in on a little girl with a childhood full of instability, frustration and unanswered questions such that her struggles in growth, her struggles, her yearnings and eventual successes exemplify those of her entire generation. From California to Georgia to Germany, Lawlor’s family was stationed in parts of the world that few are able to experience at so young an age, but being a child of military parents has never been easy. She neatly outlines the unique challenges an upbringing without roots presents someone struggling to come to terms with a world at war, and a home in constant turnover and turmoil. This book is for anyone seeking a finer awareness of the tolls that war takes not just on a nation, but on that nation’s sons and daughters, in whose hearts and minds deeper battles continue to rage long after the soldiers have come home.
‘I saw a mass of ME 109s and went up to attack. I looked behind and found three on each side diving to attack me.’ Bob Doe, Combat Report 16 August 1940 In June 1940, at the age of twenty, Bob Doe believed himself to be the worst pilot in his squadron. Just three months later he was a highly decorated hero of the Battle of Britain. This is the story of the pilot who, in his own estimation, was not promising material for a fighter pilot. He left school at fourteen and had none of the qualifications or background of his fellow officers, but he found his place in the Battle of Britain, shooting down fourteen enemy aircraft and sharing in two others. He became the third-highest-scoring pilot of the Battle, and was unusual in achieving these victories in both Spitfires and Hurricanes. This biography, written by his daughter, a noted professional historian, tells the story of Bob’s remarkable career, including his time in Burma leading an Indian Air Force squadron against the Japanese. He was a modest man who spoke for many veterans when he asked that they should not be considered as heroes but remembered for what they did. This book celebrates Bob’s achievements and also those of the men who fought alongside him.
Test Pilot's Daughter II: Dead Reckoning
Steve Ward
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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A Pilot's Progress: Flying Across the American South in World War II
Jerry Cloyd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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This book is a closely observed and lively memoir of aviation on the airfields of the American South in World War II. Along the way, the author provides us with one of the most perceptive and detailed first person accounts of Air Force pilot training in the early 1940s that we are ever likely to get. He trained in the PT-19, the BT-13 and the B-25, and flew the B-26, the justly infamous "Baltimore Whore," and the wonderful A-26 Invader. The author shapes his account of adventures, mishaps, and near disasters into a loving appreciation of how the skill of piloting is acquired, understood, and maintained. He also offers a sharp-eyed commentary on the social and cultural worlds he encountered on and off the airfields he flew from. This is a unique book that will be of interest to the aviation buff and to anyone interested in the American culture of the 1940s.
A FICTION ABOUT A HANDSOME PILOT WHO FALLS IN LOVE WITH NANA, A BLONDE YOUNG WOMAN.BUT, HE IS STILL ATTACHED TO HIS FORMER WIFE, LANA, WHO LIVES IN HAWAII.THE RELATIONSHIP GOES BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE HERO AND BOTH WOMEN.THERE IS A CONSTANT CONFLICT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL; LOVE AND HATE; LIFE AND DEATH' SATAN AND GOD.
I wrote this book as a fiction about a pilot who falls in love with a young woman, but he is still attached to his x wife.. I am writing about myself of course, and a pilot who flew "Eastern Airlines". He passed away from lung cancer. He left me, but the memory of our romance is alive... he has to make up his mind with which female he wants to stay for life. it's a relationship that rocks up and down. there is a 'war' between god and Satan, good and evil.
