<p>Dust jacket notes: "The man who was to earn the sobriquet, 'the Henry Ford of aviation,' was both merchant and mystic," writes biographer Devon Francis. "William Piper was an anachronism, the gambler and archconservative. He took risks, but they were calculated; he kept his options open....He was a romantic and a missionary zealot in the world of small business. Near the half-century mark in age when he was inducted into aircraft manufacture, he had visions that puddle-jumper airplanes might - just might - one day become important."</p>

Mr. Piper and his Cubs

History

Francis, Devon

Americas

Iowa State University Press

Power to fly: A history of the oil and aviation partnership

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Aero Publishers U.S.A

<p>This is the story of the part played by the B-26 medium bomber in winning the War. More importantly, it is the story of the men who flew in the B26's. This is a book about the War from their viewpoint. It is filled with stories narrating small slices of the lives of hundreds of men in action. Most missions were living hell. The result, in just one case: "I had the roof of my mouth shot out, so I couldn't eat, and every time I tried to drink a mouthful of water it would gush out my nose." The strain of daily brushes with death was tempered only by the humor of those facing them, like the gunner who told an after-action interrogator that the pilot of an enemy fighter had bored in so close that he "could smell the sauerkraut on the man's breath." As General Samuel Anderson says in the Introduction, "This story of medium bombardment in World War II is more than anything else the air crew's story." with 64 pages of photographs</p>

Flak Bait: The Story of the B 26 Bombers and the Men Who Flew Them in World War II

Zenger Pub

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