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Aircraft at War: The Memphis Belle Deluxe Edition
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Shot in 1944 in England and over the skies of war-torn Europe, the documentary The Memphis Belle is the most famous film to emerge from WWII. Filmed by legendary Hollywood director William Wyler, the movie chronicles the 25th and final combat mission of a B-17 and its crew. A moving and real portrait of courage, Memphis Belle stands as the definitive chronicle of the air war. Featured on this special, Deluxe Edition is a new, digitally enhanced transfer of The Memph… More >>
Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War
- ISBN13: 9780743470773
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In 1964, as the first B-52s took flight in what would become America’s longest combat mission, an old Air Force base on the plains of Kansas became Schilling Manor — the only base ever to be set aside for the wives and children of soldiers assigned to Vietnam. Author Donna Moreau was the daughter of one such waiting wife, and here she writes of growing up at a time when The Flintstones were interrupted with news of firefights, fraggings, and protests, when the even… More >>
Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War