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Gilbert, Bill. Air Power: Heroes and Heroism in American Flight Missions, 1916 to Today.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

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Sept. 2003. 288p. illus. Kensington/Citadel, $24.95 (0-8065-2479-0). 358.4.

Gilbert, author of 20 other books, recounts I 1 missions by the U.S. Air Force, from the pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916 to the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Gilbert tells the stories of historic flights over Tokyo, Ploesti, the Himalayan Mountains, and Hiroshima in World War 11; the 15-month Berlin Airlift in 1948; and missions in Korea and Vietnam, Gilbert offers a wealth of detail: the types of planes, their ...

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