For six months after Pearl Harbor the nimble Japanese Zero-sen plane dominated the Pacific air war. Then, on June 4, 1942 a Zero crashed on tiny Akutan Island in the Aleutians. It lay there for five weeks until spotted by an American plane. Hauled back to California, the Zero revealed its secrets in a series of tests and analyses. Fast, but lacking protection for the pilot as well as a self-sealing gas tank which all U.S. planes had, the Zero lost its predominance for the rest of the war. Rearden tells for the first time in detail the exciting events leading to this crucial intelligence breakthrough, as important as the breaking of the Japanese naval code. An appendix analyzes the vital statistics of the Zero versus U.S. planes.

Cracking the Zero Mystery: How the U.S. Learned to Beat Japan's Vaunted WWII Fighter Plane

History

Rearden, Jim

Military

Stackpole Books

Traces the life and flying career of Rudy Billberg

In the Shadow of Eagles: From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot: A Flyer's Story

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Alaska Northwest Books

In his dramatic autobiography, Alaskan elder Sidney Huntington, half-white, half-Athabascan, recounts his adventures, tragedies, and ultimate success.

Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River

Biographies & Memoirs

Huntington, Sidney

Reference & Collections

A celebration of the great age of aviation with pioneer flyer Rudy Billberg, whose experiences included air show stunt pilot, bush pilot, and fighting forest fires from the air.

In the Shadow of Eagles: From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot: A Flyer's Story (Caribou Classic)

Billberg, Rudy

Historical

In the Shadow of Eagles: From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot, A Flyer's Story

Americas

The Wolves of Alaska: A Fact-based Saga

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Between 1915 and 1955 adventure-seeking Frank Glaser, a latter-day Far North Mountain Man, trekked across wilderness Alaska on foot, by wolf-dog team, and eventually, by airplane. In his career he was a market hunter, trapper, roadhouse owner, professional dog team musher, and a federal predator control agent. A naturalist at heart, he learned from personal observation life secrets of moose, caribou, foxes, wolverine, Dall sheep, grizzly bears, and wolves--especially wolves.A superb shot, self-sufficient, and wilderness wise, Glaser not only survived, but prospered in the far lonely places. Almost always alone, he survived many encounters with charging grizzly bears, some of which he had to shoot to keep from being mauled. He knew how to cope with 50 and 60 below zero temperatures, and more than once he plunged through the ice in extreme cold and survived only because of his woods know-how.

Alaska's Wolf Man: The 1915-55 Wilderness Adventures of Frank Glaser

Travelers & Explorers

Found upside down in an Alaskan bog in the eighth month of our war with Japan, a Japanese fighter plane was retrieved and soon test flown by U.S. pilots. Knowledge gained from those flights ended the dominance of the Zero in the Pacific.

Koga's Zero: The Fighter That Changed World War II : Found in Alaska

Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.

Gripping accounts of the most frightening encounters with Alaska's big bears. Told in Rearden's unique factual style, he takes you on a journey about Alaska's bears with tales of how people live and die in the 49th state with the world's largest land carnivore. Table of Contents Chapter 1 Alaska's Killer Bears 2 Boxed with a Bear 3 Doctor's Orders 4 The Ghost Grizzly of Savage River 5 Bears I Won't Forget 6 The Shy Killer 7 I Shoot a Prize Bear 8 Aerial Hunt for Polar Bear 9 Bears are Crazy 10 Black Bandit 11 Alaska's Black Bears 12 Brownie! Alaska's Big Coastal Grizzly 13 My 40 Years with Bears 14 The Haystack Bear 15 The Kodiak Bear War 16 Rex, The Dog That Feared Bears 17 My Bare-Knuckle Brawl with a Bear 18 I Was Mauled by a Brown Bear 19 Living with Kodiak's Bears 20 The Remarkable Bears of McNeil River 21 Publishing History

Tales of Alaska's Big Bears

Wolfe Pub. Co

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