Airlift
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Airlift, Military |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Airlift, Military |
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Author | : Tom Shachtman |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429960906 |
This is the long-hidden saga of how a handful of Americans and East Africans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to transport to, or support at, U.S. and Canadian universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would go on to change their world and ours. The students supported included Barack Obama Sr., future father of a U.S. president, Wangari Maathai, future Nobel Peace Prize laureate, as well as the nation-builders of post-colonial East Africa -- cabinet ministers, ambassadors, university chancellors, clinic and school founders. The airlift was conceived by the unusual partnership of the charismatic, later-assassinated Kenyan Tom Mboya and William X. Scheinman, a young American entrepreneur, with supporting roles played by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The airlift even had an impact on the 1960 presidential race, as Vice-President Richard Nixon tried to muscle the State Department into funding the project to prevent Senator Jack Kennedy from using his family foundation to do so and reaping the political benefit. The book is based on the files of the airlift's sponsor, the African American Students Foundation, untouched for almost fifty years.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services |
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Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Airlife, Military |
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Committee Serial No. 61. Considers military airlift operations, including those performed by civilian airlines under contract. Also considers aircraft modernization programs as they relate to airlift improvements.
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Airlift, Military |
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Author | : Ray L. Bowers |
Publisher | : Department of the Air Force |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
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Air Force History and Museums Program. Presents the United States Air Force’s use of one form of air power, tactical airlift aviation, in the changing limited warfare situation in Vietnam. Covers the period from the decision of President Truman to assist the French in 1950 to the end of United States involvement in 1975.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Military Airlift |
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Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
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Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Air pilots, Military |
ISBN | : 156311125X |
The history of the use of airlift and tanker forces in the U.S. military from the early biplane to today's advanced aircraft is brilliantly described in this book.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services |
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
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Author | : United States. Air Force |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Research and Development |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
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