With the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States the first of six schools, No. 1 British Flying Training School (BFTS), was located in Terrell, Texas, east of Dallas. The cadets trained in the air on aerobatics, instrument flight, and night flying, while on the ground they studied navigation, meteorology, engines, and armaments-even spending time in early flight simulators. Not all survived their training. By the end of the war, more than two thousand RAF cadets...
With the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poo...
In Spartan Band (coined from a chaplain's eulogistic poem) author Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn from eleven counties in East Texas. The cavalry regiment organized in the spring of 1862 but was ordered to dismount once in Arkansas. The regiment gradually evolved into a tough, well-trained unit during action at Lake Providence, Fort De Russy, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry, as part of Maj. Gen. John G. Walker's Texas division in the Trans-Mississippi Department. "The hard-marching, hard-fighting soldiers of the 13th Texas Cavalry...
In Spartan Band (coined from a chaplain's eulogistic poem) author Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn fro...
Winner of two Communicator Awards for Cover (overall) and Cover (design), 2013. "They Called Them Soldier Boys" offers an in-depth study of soldiers of the Texas National Guard s Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, through their recruitment, training, journey to France, combat, and their return home. Gregory W. Ball focuses on the fourteen counties in North, Northwest, and West Texas where officers recruited the regiment s soldiers in the summer of 1917, and how those counties compared with the rest of the state in terms of political, social, and economic attitudes.
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Winner of two Communicator Awards for Cover (overall) and Cover (design), 2013. "They Called Them Soldier Boys" offers an in-depth study of so...
Winner of the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography, Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York, 2014. The military career of General James Monroe Williams spanned both the Civil War and the Indian Wars in the West, yet no biography has been published to date on his important accomplishments, until now. From his birth on the northern frontier, westward movement in the Great Migration, rush into the violence of antebellum Kansas Territory, Civil War commands in the Trans-Mississippi, and as a cavalry officer in the Indian Wars, Williams was involved in...
Winner of the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography, Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York, 2014. The mil...
During World War II the United States mobilized its industrial assets to become the great “Arsenal of Democracy” through the cooperation of the government and private firms. The Dallas Story examines a specific aviation factory, operated by the North American Aviation (NAA) company in Dallas, Texas. Terrance Furgerson explores the construction and opening of the factory, its operation, its relations with the local community, and the closure of the facility at the end of the war. Prior to the opening of the factory in 1941, the city of Dallas had practically no existing industrial base....
During World War II the United States mobilized its industrial assets to become the great “Arsenal of Democracy” through the cooperation of the go...
