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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Pub. Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 CARChong, Denise.
Summary: On June 8, 1972, a photograph flashed over the wire of a nine-year-old girl, running naked in terror down a highway after a misplaced napalm strike on her village in South Vietnam. Known the world over as the "napalm girl" in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, Kim Phuc was but one victim of many in a war that was ending for America as it brought its last troops home less than a year later....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 CHOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 CHOCastle, Timothy N. (Timothy Neil)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 CASHeywood, Joe T.
Summary: A fictional account of the air war through the eyes of Captain Barney South, the first Flying Ace of the Vietnam War. After having flown more than 90 hazardous missions, he is being offered the most important mission of the war, they say--although Barney is convinced he's being set up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HeyNewman, Rick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio Press/Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 NEWSummary: When the final refugees were airlifted from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon, the helicopter that took them to freedom was not part of the U.S. military. Instead, it was flown by one of the most clandestine operations in the history of the CIA. From its origins with the legendary Flying Tigers of WWII to the final days of the Vietnam War. See how Air America was a cornerstone of U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AIRPedersen, Dan
Summary: "The founder of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons program, aka "TOPGUN," shares the untold story of how he and eight other young pilots revolutionized the art of aerial combat and created the center for excellence and incubator of leadership that thrives to this day."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PEDERSEN, DAN PEDHansen, Neil Graham
Summary: In 1964, I embarked on a journey that was to be my life's adventure. I hired on as a pilot for Air America and its clandestine operations in Southeast Asia. Flying for the CIA's secret airline was a dream come true. Air America's operations were unknown. Its schedules were irregular. Its pilots were shadow people. It was the world of spooks, covert air ops and adventure. I had already been a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Publishing Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War HansenKim Phúc
Summary: "Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames--before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIM PHUC KIMYang, Kao Kalia
Summary: "In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 MICSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010