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Pathfinder Pioneer
- The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II
- By: Raymond E. Brim
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In this engaging audiobook, we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America's air counteroffensive in Europe. Pathfinder Pioneer gives us vivid insights into the genesis of the American air campaign, told with the humor, attention to detail, and humility that captures the heart and soul of our Greatest Generation.
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Long but good
- By Phil H. on 25-04-24
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Pathfinder Pioneer
- The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
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Harnessing the Sky
- Frederick "Trap" Trapnell, the U.S. Navy's Aviation Pioneer, 1923-1952
- By: Frederick M. Trapnell Jr., Dana Trapnell Tibbitts
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A pilot of calculated courage, "Trap" entered the Navy when test pilots were more like stuntmen than engineers. Airplanes had not yet come into their own as weapons of war, and they had an undeveloped role in the fleet. His vision and leadership shaped the evolution of naval aviation through its formative years and beyond. When the threat of war in 1940 raised an alarm over the Navy's deficiency in aircraft - especially fighters - Trap was appointed to lead the Flight Test Section to direct the development of all-new Navy airplanes.
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Straight to the point.
- By Craig on 09-07-20
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Harnessing the Sky
- Frederick "Trap" Trapnell, the U.S. Navy's Aviation Pioneer, 1923-1952
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 15-08-17
- Language: English
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Watson
- Personal Memoirs of a Civil War Pioneer
- By: Watson Stewart
- Narrated by: Charlie Ray
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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In the early 1900s, Watson Stewart set out to record the principal events of his life in a set of personal memoirs. These writings, originally finished on his 77th birthday in 1904, have been rediscovered and compiled - over 120 years later - by Watson’s descendants. The resulting text is an enlightening glimpse into life as a pioneer in a country on the brink of Civil War. Watson led a remarkable life filled with family tragedy, Native American relations, Civil War, and squabbles with some of the most famous historical figures in American history.
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Watson
- Personal Memoirs of a Civil War Pioneer
- Narrated by: Charlie Ray
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 10-07-24
- Language: English
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Helicopter Heroine
- Valérie André - Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire
- By: Charles Morgan Evans
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
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Valerie Andre was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1922. From an early age, she wanted to fly, but as a woman, she faced challenges. While boys could receive government-funded flight lessons, Andre had to pay for hers by tutoring. During World War II, she left Strasbourg against German prohibitions in order to study medicine in Paris, where she completed her studies under threat of arrest by the Gestapo. Assigned to an army hospital in Saigon in French Indochina in the late 1940s, Andre trained as a neurosurgeon.
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Helicopter Heroine
- Valérie André - Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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The Determined Spy
- The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
- By: Douglas Waller
- Length: 17 hrs
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An intimate and expertly researched biography of little-known early CIA leader Frank Wisner, whose behind-the-scenes influence on Cold War policy—and hundreds of highly secret anti-Soviet missions—resonates with the international crises we see today.
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The Determined Spy
- The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
- Length: 17 hrs
- Release date: 08-04-25
- Language: English
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Captain John Dix, 1796-1870
- A Texas Pioneer
- By: Dan R. Manning
- Narrated by: Bob Rundell
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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John Dix was born with an adventure-seeking spirit. Within a year after of his father's death, he shipped out at the age of 16 on a privateer during the War of 1812. That led to him joining the South Pacific merchant trade, and becoming captain of his own ship. When it was accidentally wrecked in New Zealand, he returned to America, married a girl from Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Dixboro in Michigan Territory, and never went to sea again. Ten years later, Dix once more got the urge to move. He ended up in Stephen Austin's Texas Colony, where he fought in the initial battles of the Texas War for Independence at San Antonio de Bexar. During the Civil War, as loyal Unionists in secessionist Texas, Dix and his wife suffered until war's end. That was when he was sworn in as the County Judge and became the Nueces County Assistant Agent for the Freedmen's Bureau, a position held until his death in 1870, where he helped former slaves make the transition to becoming American citizens.
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Captain John Dix, 1796-1870
- A Texas Pioneer
- Narrated by: Bob Rundell
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-11-15
- Language: English
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