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The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh (77 page)

Duffy, James P.
Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry that Divided America
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“Eddie Rickenbacker.”
Life
, January 25, 1943.

Farr, Finis.
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.

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“Flying Tank Defeats Ace.”
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Franks, Norman.
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Friedman, David M.
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
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Jimmy Doolittle: Daredevil Aviator and Scientist
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_____. The Doolittle Raid: America’s Daring First Strike Against Japan
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Guttman, Jon.
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Herndon, Booton. Rickenbacker interview transcripts: “Auto Racing.” “Racing Death.” “Atlanta Crash.” “Indy Speedway Eastern Air Lines.” “Fight with Roosevelt.” “Fighter Pilot World War I.” “Mission to China, Mideast, Russia.” “Travel Home from Russia.” “Criticism of B-17.” “Mission to Russia.” “British Plane.” “Comet.” “Britain World War II.” “Moscow Trip.” “Letters Re: Pacific Crash and Commendation.” “Pacific Mission Crash.” “Report to Stimson.” “After World War II, 1930s.” “Children, Ranch.” “Glenn Martin.” “Mrs. Rickenbacker’s Diary.” “Trip Around the World.” “View on U.S. Government.” “1962 Prediction of Things to Come.” “Views on Big Government.” “Communism.” “Trips to North Africa, India, China.” (Conducted 1965–1966.)

Hertog, Susan.
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Highstone, Herbert H. “In Terms of Reliability, Nicolson Lies Lower Than Frank Harris.” Review of Harold Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters
, at Amazon.com.

Hixon, Walter L.
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Hoppes, Jonna Doolittle.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
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Leighton, Isabel. Rickenbacker interview transcripts: “Love Affairs.” “Auto Racing.” “Views on Race.” “Atlanta Crash.” “Stops Flying.” “Leadership.” “Courtship, Marriage.” “Germany, Udet.” “Loss at Sea.”

Lewis, W. David.
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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow.
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_____. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters, 1929–1932
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

_____. Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters, 1933–1935
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

_____. Flower and the Nettle: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936–1939
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

_____. War Within and Without: Diaries and Letters, 1939–1944
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_____. Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947–1986
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Lindbergh, Charles A.
We, N-X-211
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_____. Of Flight and Life
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_____. Spirit of St. Louis
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_____. The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh
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_____. Autobiography of Values
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_____. Lindbergh Looks Back: A Boyhood Reminiscence
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Lindbergh, Reeve.
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.

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_____. They Fought for the Sky
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Rickenbacker, Edward V.
Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story
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_____. Fighting the Flying Circus
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_____. Rickenbacker: An Autobiography
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Ross, Walter S.
The Last Hero: Charles A. Lindbergh
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Salisbury, Harrison Evans.
A Journey for Our Times: A Memoir
. New York: Harper and Row, 1983.

Schultz, Duane.
The Doolittle Raid
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.

Serling, Robert J.
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Smith, Truman.
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Thomas, Lowell, and Edward Jablonski.
Doolittle: A Biography
. New York: DeCapo Press, 1976.

Tuchman, Barbara W.
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45
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“The Vivid Air.”
Over the Front Review
, Winter 2007, at
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Wallace, Max.
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Ward, John W. “The Meaning of Lindbergh’s Flight.”
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20, no. 1, Spring 1958.

Watson, C. Hoyt.
Deshazer
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Whittaker, Lt. James C.
We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing: The Complete Epic Story of the Ordeal and Rescue of Those Who Were with Eddie Rickenbacker on the Plane Lost in the Pacific
. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943.

Wolk, Herman S.
Cataclysm: General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan
. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2010.

Yoshino, Ronald.
Lightning Strikes: The 475th Fighter Group in the Pacific War, 1943–1945
. Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1988.

Zorn, Robert.
Cemetery John: The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
. New York: Overlook Press, 2012.

 

Illustrations Credits

Front Cover
: (Plane) Bettmann/Corbis; (Ship) Corbis; (Sea and Sky Background) Elena Schweitzer/Shutterstock.

Corbis; (
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), Auburn University Libraries Special Collections and Archives; (
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), Auburn University Libraries Special Collections and Archives; (
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), Kenneth Rogers/Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center; (
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), James H. Doolittle Collection/History of Aviation Collection/Special Collections Department/McDermott Library/The University of Texas at Dallas; (
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), Doolittle Family Collection; (
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), Underwood Archives/Getty Images; (
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), The Cleveland Press Collection/Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections/Cleveland State University; (
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), Corbis; (
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), Lindbergh Picture Collection/Manuscripts and Archives/Yale University Library; (
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), Corbis/NGS; (
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), Underwood & Underwood/Corbis; (
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), Hulton Archive/Central Press/Getty Images; (
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), Lindbergh Picture Collection/Manuscripts and Archives/Yale University Library; (
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), AP Photo; (
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), AP Photo/Corbis; (
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), James H. Doolittle Collection/History of Aviation Collection/Special Collections Department/McDermott Library/The University of Texas at Dallas; (
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), James H. Doolittle Collection/History of Aviation Collection/Special Collections Department/McDermott Library/The University of Texas at Dallas; (
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), AP Photo/U.S. Navy; (
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), Auburn University Libraries Special Collections and Archives; (
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), Lindbergh Picture Collection/Manuscripts and Archives/Yale University Library; (
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), Lindbergh Picture Collection/Manuscripts and Archives/Yale University Library; (
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), AP Photo/John Nance; U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Carlin Leslie.

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