Bunker Hill and Grissom Air Force Base

by Tom Kelley

Book Overview

As the US Navy recovered from the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the aircraft carrier earned a place alongside the battleship, and the Navy grew its air force. Pilots were needed as fast as American industry could build airplanes, and Indiana became the home of a naval air-training center. After fascism's defeat with the end of World War II, a potentially more deadly Cold War brought the need for a deterrent force capable of surviving a nuclear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467115088
• ISBN13: 9781467115087
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"