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The Jerrie Mock story

the first woman to fly solo around the world
A biography of Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world in the 1960s.

Devotion

an epic story of heroism, friendship, and sacrifice
The story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown. Tom Hudner was a White New Englander from the country-club scene. Jesse Brown was African American and a sharecropper's son from Mississippi. Tom and Jesse became a team when they joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Their job was to land their planes on the deck of an aircraft carrier--considered the world's most dangerous job. When the Korean War becomes a reality, Tom and Jesse come to the aid of the Marines cornered in the Chosin Reservoir Battle. When one of them is shot down behind enemy lines, and pinned in his burning plane, the other faces an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die or attempt history's most audacious one-man rescue mission.

The Jerrie Mock story

the first woman to fly solo around the world
"The story of Jerrie Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world"--.

The nation's hangar

aircraft treasures of the Smithsonian from the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
2011
A textual and visual history of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft.
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