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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I EARLY YEARS
• 1. My Family and Ancestry
• 2. My Early Life in Minnesota
• 3. My Love Affair with a Plane
• 4. Bubba's Experience in the Military
• pt. II WAR YEARS
• 5. I Just Wanted to Fly
• 6. Flight Training: In the Air at Last
• 7. Transition to War
• 8. Trip Overseas and Commander B. O. Davis
• 9. Air Forces, the P-51, and Ramitelli Air Field
• 10. Combat
• 11. December 1944
• 12. January to February 1945
• 13. March 1945
• 14. Nuremberg
• 15. March to Moosburg
• 16. Liberation
• 17. Going Home
• pt. III POSTWAR YEARS

• 18. To Stay or Not to Stay
• 19. Future Unfolds
• 20. Korean War
• 21. Strategic Air Command
• 22. Crises in America and My Decision to Leave the Military
• 23. New Career in Higher Education
• 24. Fame
• 25. Giving Back
• 26. Breaking Par
• 27. Fourth Quarter.

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Author/Creator:

Brown, Harold H., 1924- , author

Contributors:

Bordner, Marsha S., 1950- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Keep your airspeed up: the story of Tuskegee airman Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner [by Brown, H.H.]

Subjects:

Brown, Harold H., 1924-

United States Army Air Forces — Fighter Squadron, 99th — Biography

Fighter pilots — United States — Biography

African American air pilots — Biography

World War, 1939-1945 — Participation, African American

World War, 1939-1945 — Aerial operations, American

Prisoners of war — United States — Biography

Prisoners of war — Germany — Biography

World War, 1939-1945 — Prisoners and prisons, German

World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, American

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

D790.262 99th B76 2017eb

ISBNs:

9780817391409
0817391401
9780817319588 [Invalid]
0817319581 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

995766780

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4926018 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp14716466