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Silent Invaders

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Silent Invaders

By Gary Best

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About the book

Combat gliders were called by some as Death Crates, Purple Heart Boxes, Flying Coffins and Tow Targets . They were not pretty and had no graceful lines. Viewed from the front, they had a pug nose and a sloping Neanderthal forehead. Their wings looked like the heavily starched ears of a jackrabbit placed at right angles on a canvas-covered frame. Twice the length of the body, these wings were eighty-four feet in length, 70 per cent as long as the Wright Brothers first powered flight at Kitty Hawk...Show more

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9781625450005

Publisher

Fonthill Media LLc

Published year

2014

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Silent Invaders

Format

Hardcover

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