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The Aviators
- 2013 . 629.1309 GRO . Beaverton Library
Winston Groom 1944-2020
- p010-011 map of Pacific Theater 1942
- Palau 134°W 7°N was colonized by the Spanish, sold to Germany in 1899, annexed by Japan in 1914, captured by US in 1944, independent in 1981, Lorraine Smith moved there with US Peace Corps
p012 ch 1: These Three Men
p018 ch 2: The King of Dirt
- p023 Religious Rickenbacker mother "ominous 23rd psalm" ... "The Lord is my shepherd ..."
- "valley of the shadow of death" ... a better translation is "darkest valley"
- green pastures, protections, comforts, no retributions, no punishments - how is that ominous?
p039 ch 3: The Man with the Outside Loop
p063 ch 4: Can Those Be Stars
p084 ch 5. Air Combat is Not Sport, It Is Scientific Murder
p124 ch 6: New York to Paris
p128 de Havilland flaming coffins fuel tank behind copilot
- p129 Lindberg fuel runs out, parachutes from plane; pitch changes, fuel flows, engine restarts, threatens parachute
p130 Wright-Bellanca WB-1?? probably WB-2 with J-5 engine, one made, neither "upwards of 200 mph"
p131 1919 Transatlantic flight 2000 miles from Newfoundland to Irish bog crash landing
- New York to Paris 3600 miles
p132 Spirit stripped of nonessentials, leather seat replaced with wicker
p134 Bellanca, Travel Air, chose Ryan NYP
- p135 Measured distance with string on globe in San Diego library
p139 The competition Commander Byrd René Fonck Noel Davis Charles Nungusser Clarence D. Chamberlin Charles Levine
p141 Spirit assembled at Dutch Flats near San Diego
- p142 Lindbergh's flight from San Diego to Saint Lewis broke a cross-country flying record
p142 Curtiss Field on Long Island
p143 surrounded by many New York press photographers, "as competitive as piranha and as ethical as ghouls"
p301 ch 11: The Raid
p342 ch 12: We Were Slowly Rotting Away
p378 ch 13: The Lone Eagle Goes to War
- plate 1943 Rickenbacker book about raid "Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker's Full Story"
p404 soldiers' billingsgate
p415 Lindbergh's 1946 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy speech at Washington Aero Club
- p416 Lindbergh enthusiastic environmentalist
p417 ch 14: Masters of the Sky