Author | Bowen, Robert Sidney, 1900-1977.
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Title | They flew to fame / by Robert Sidney Bowen ; illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs and Nel Clairmont.
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Published | Racine, Wisconsin : Whitman Publishing Company, c1963.
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Description | 210 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Formatted Note | Contents: The great beginning: Wilbur and Orville Wright -- Across the Channel: Louis Bleriot -- The cups of death: Manfred von Richthofen -- Prize of battle: Eddie Rickenbacker -- "Just plain suicide!": Charles A. Lindbergh -- To the South Pole: Bernt Balchen -- To show the way: Amelia Earhart -- Top secret: James H. Doolittle -- A long trip home: Joseph Foss
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Subjects | Aeronautics -- History -- Juvenile literature. Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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Other Authors | Biggs, Geoffrey. Clairmonte, Nel.
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| WRHS Research Library: TL 539 B786 1963 CA-1904834: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
[Record 133903] |
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