1935
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Author_Thomas E. Simmons
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Category=NH
Category=NL-HB
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ethiopia
ethiopian history
ethiopians
fighters
flight schools
forgotten heroes
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
gulfport
haile selassie
HMM=229
IMPN=Skyhorse Publishing
impossible odds
inspiring affirmation
ISBN13=9781620872178
italian invasion
kites
Language_English
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norwegian resistance
NY
ordinary soldiers
p-51
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racial barriers
red tail
segregated
segregationist
SMM=30
Subject=History
terrain
tucker
tuskegee airmen
tuskegee institute
WG=488
WMM=152
world war
Product details
- ISBN 9781620872178
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 488g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 30mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication City/Country: New York, US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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How did a black child, growing up in segregationist Mississippi during the early 1900s, become the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935? In this gripping, never-before-told tale, biographer Thoma
Thomas E. Simmons grew up in Mississippi and attended the Marion Military Institute, the U. S. Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Alabama. He served as commercial captain of a seventy-foot sailing vessel, has been a pilot since the age of sixteen, has flown professionally, and participated in air shows flying aerobatics in open-cockpit biplanes. In 1960, he served as an artillery officer in Korea. He and his wife live in Gulfport, Mississippi.
