AuthorBowen, Robert Sidney, 1900-1977.
TitleThey flew to fame / by Robert Sidney Bowen ; illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs and Nel Clairmont.
PublishedRacine, Wisconsin : Whitman Publishing Company, c1963.
Description210 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Formatted NoteContents: 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
SubjectsAeronautics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Other AuthorsBiggs, Geoffrey.
Clairmonte, Nel.
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: TL 539 B786 1963
CA-1904834: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
[Record 133903]