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The 21st Century Junior Library Extraordinary Engineering series explains how important feats of engineering are accomplished. Aircraft Carriers examines the engineering concepts that make these incredible floating cities possible. Sidebars encourage readers to engage in the material by asking deeper questions or conducting individual research. An activity, full color photos, a glossary, and a listing of additional resources all enhance the learning...
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After years of following her navy officer husband on assignment around the world with their three children, Grace Bennett realizes that she's left something behind—herself.Steve Bennett can't understand the unraveling of his wife's heart. He wants to set things right, but when a secret from his past is revealed just as he's sent out to sea, their already-strained relationship is pushed to the edge. Now, with plenty of space to ponder the...
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"A ninety-thousand-ton aircraft carrier. Six thousand men onboard. A killer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who will track him down... The high-octane debut thriller from the New York Times bestselling writing team of former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb and John David Mann. When Navy SEAL sniper Finn steps on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it's immediately clear something is wrong. It's been a long...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The aircraft carrier Essex is launched. 2. Henry Ford, on his 79th birthday, inspects the first Ford automobile manufactured. 3. Old automobiles race across the Connecticut countryside. 4. Americans pray in a cathedral. 5. Tanks are manufactured and tested. 6. Nazi spies are tried in the Supreme Court; F.B.I. agents with incendiary devices carried by the Germans who landed on the Atlantic...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The aircraft carrier Oriskany is launched. 2. The aircraft carrier Ticonderoga docks in San Francisco. 3. President Rios of Chile visits Truman at the White House. 4. Salmon being caught and canned. 5. President Truman dedicates a dam. 6. The 100th anniversary of the Naval Academy. 7. Preparations at Nuremberg for the war trials.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The carrier Franklin is bombed in Pacific waters but limps home through the Panama Canal to an Atlantic port. 2. Crews of two German submarines surrender off the New Jersey coast. 3. German Generals Keitel and Jodl surrender to General Spaatz and Russian Marshall Zhukov at Berlin.
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Presents the extraordinary story of the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its thirty thousand employees and shipyard workers who battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers, and a pandemic to build the U.S. Navy's newest and most powerful aircraft carrier.
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The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy
Task Force 58 was World War II’s most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen aircraft carriers, over a thousand combat aircraft, and an armada of escorts, it was vital to victory over Japan.
In this compelling account,...
Task Force 58 was World War II’s most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen aircraft carriers, over a thousand combat aircraft, and an armada of escorts, it was vital to victory over Japan.
In this compelling account,...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Eleanor Roosevelt, General Marshall, Admiral King, and Bernard Baruch witness the launching of the Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 2. Admiral Doenitz and Artur von Seyss-Inquart are captured in Germany. 3. B-29s of the 8th Air Force land in the U.S. 4. President Truman presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to an infantryman. 5. Two traitors are tried and shot in...
17) Aircraft carrier
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Step aboard the USS Ronald Reagan alongside the 5,000 highly skilled sea and air personnel conducting flight operations in the midst of simulated war exercises.