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UNINA9910452697103321 |
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Autore |
Abney Arthur E |
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Titolo |
Wings over Illinois [[electronic resource] /] / Arthur E. Abney ; with a foreword by David NewMyer |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, : published for the Department of Aviation Management and Flight, Southern Illinose University, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Air pilots - United States |
Aeronautics - Illinois - History |
World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, American |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Kitty Hawk to the Moon; Part One: From Harco to the Skies; The Early Years; Navy Training; VPB-16 at War; Back to Corpus; After the War; A Challenge; American Airlines; Back to Southern Illinois; Part Two: Hangar Flying; Introduction; Fifty Stories; FLYING AT THE BUOY; DOC BILL BERNARD'S STORIES; TWO HOMEBUILT AIRPLANES; PRAYER HELPS; A CONSERVATIVE VIEW; FLIGHT EXPERIENCE; A MEMORABLE FLIGHT; INVERTED SPINS; THE ISLE OF CAPRI; AWFULLY SHORT RUNWAY!; THE LAST FIGHTER SWEEP FOR MOHAWK 13; NC21000 |
TRAINING PAYS OFFTWO MISSIONS OVER GERMANY; SO YOU WANT TO FLY A BIG AIRPLANE?; LOST AND FOUND OVER SCOTLAND; A DOUBLE BIRTHDAY; A "HAIRY" TALE; MOMENTS FROM DISASTER; IN THE DRINK DURING THE KOREAN WAR; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; AN EGO-DEFLATOR FLIGHT; OUR FIRST MISSION; WHAT WERE THE ODDS?; THE DAY I BECAME AN ACE; A CLOSE CALL; THE BREEZY; GUARDIAN ANGELS; I REMEMBER THAT AIRPLANE; STALAG XVII B; A BEGINNER'S FLYING EXPERIENCE; TOUGH MISSION; REEVALUATING MY PAST; MY THREE |
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EXCITING ADVENTURES; LOST; THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE SKY; NO MORE MACHO; THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE; THEN AND NOW |
THE SKIPPER'S STORYFORCED LANDING; MARGINAL MOVES; AN ATLANTIC ODYSSEY; MY STRETCH IN SERVICE; SWELLS, STALLS, AND SPIES; WE WERE LUCKY; GOOD LUCK-AND SKILL; SKUD RUNNING; ARE WE STILL FLYING?; MISSISSIPPI MUD; Back Cover |
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Wings over Illinois recounts World War II veteran Arthur Abney's illustrious aviation career, effectively documenting a span in our own nation's history from the vantage of the skies. Abney describes a lifetime of experience, from his time as an eager young pilot with the Flying Egyptians to his tour of service during World War II, his years with the Illinois Department of Aeronautics, American Airlines, and the Southern Illinois University Aviation Management and Flight program. Abney introduces readers to hangar flying-exciting end-of-day flig |
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UNINA9910785642803321 |
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Autore |
Berger Alan L |
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Crisis and Covenant [[electronic resource] ] : The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, 1985 |
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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism |
American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism |
Covenants -- Religious aspects -- Judaism |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature |
American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism - 20th century - United States |
Judaism and literature - History - 20th century - United States |
American fiction - History and criticism |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature - Intellectual life |
Jews - Judaism - Religious aspects |
Covenants |
Jews in literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
American Literature |
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Livello bibliografico |
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""Front Matter ""; ""Half Title Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Content ""; ""Introduction: Jewish Existence""; ""Covenant Transformations""; ""Covenant and Modernity""; ""The Contemporary Covenantal Crisis""; ""Literary Response to Covenant Crisis""; ""American Judaism and the Holocaust""; ""Contributions of American Jewish Holocaust Novelists""; ""Holocaust As Watershed""; ""Holocaust Problematics""; ""Theological Responses""; ""Theology and Literature""; ""Is the Holocaust Beyond Artistic Expression?"" |
""Who Should Write of the Holocaust?""""Trivializing the Holocaust""; ""American Jewish Writers and the Holocaust: A Critique""; ""The Role of the American Jewish Novelist""; ""Holocaust Responses I:Judaism As A Religious Value System""; ""The Holocaust and American Diaspora Jewry""; ""Hasidic Tales""; ""Considering the Evidence""; ""Arthur A. Cohen""; ""Cynthia Ozick""; ""Hugh Nissenson""; ""Elie Wiesel""; ""Isaac Bashevis Singer""; ""Holocaust Responses II:Judaism As A Secular Value System""; ""Considering the Evidence""; ""Bernard Malamud""; ""Saul Bellow""; ""Susan F. Schaeffer"" |
""Cynthia Ozick""""PRE-HOLOCAUST AMERICA: JEWISH EXISTENCE AND COVENANT DIMINISHMENT""; ""Hugh Nissenson""; ""Robert Kotlowitz""; ""Conclusion""; ""Holocaust Responses III:Symbolic Judaism""; ""Considering The Evidence""; ""Philip Roth""; ""Richard Elman""; ""Edward Lewis Wallant""; ""Norma Rosen""; ""Bernard Malamud""; ""Conclusion""; ""Holocaust And Covenant""; ""The Central Question for Contemporary Judaism""; ""Holocaust Fiction Lato Sensu""; ""Problems and Possibilities""; ""Back Matter ""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" |
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