The first Army Air Corps navigational class at Miami University graduated in November 1940. In this book, Colonel Whitcomb follows these first celestial navigators through their World War II trials. Twenty-five personal stories and a series of photographs paint the stories of these men as they fought--combining the ancient art of navigating by the stars with the equipment on their B-17s, became prisoners of war, lived through the Bataan Death March, escaped from Japanese captors, survived primitive conditions in the Philippines, died for their country, or later served the US as navigators on the aircraft of presidents and dignitaries.
Mode of access: Internet from the Air University Press web site. Address as of 5/30/03: http://aupress.au.af.mil/Books/Whitcomb/whitcomb.pdf; current access is available via PURL.
Language (note)
English.
Author
Whitcomb, Edgar D.
Title
On celestial wings / Ed Whitcomb.
Imprint
Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. : Air University Press, [1995]
Type of content
text
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
System details
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Mode of access: Internet from the Air University Press web site. Address as of 5/30/03: http://aupress.au.af.mil/Books/Whitcomb/whitcomb.pdf; current access is available via PURL.