Flying Tigers of the 14th Air Force
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Fly Girls
""During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutantes who joined the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPS) test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air." This PBS site tells their story. Best clicks are found under Special Features and include video clips, a B-29 tour, and an amusing story of how Lieutenant Colonel Paul W. Tibbets got his male pilots to stop complaining about the new B-29 bomber."
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Events of the 20th Century
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Encyclopedia Mythica: Greek Mythology
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Earth Calendar
Reviewed August 16, 2000 by Kiersten, a reader from North America who is affiliated with the site. The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidays and festivals from countries and religions around the world. Every day is a celebration!
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Dad’s War
"Subtitled "Finding and Telling Your Father’s World War II Story," Wesley Johnston’s useful instructions can be applied equally to learning about your grandparents’ wartime stories or your parents’ Vietnam experiences. The first step is to identify their unit as specifically as possible, and then search out the outfit’s alumni association. The Internet makes much of this research considerably easier. Johnson’s site also includes links to dozens of World War II stories told first hand, and by sons and daughters."
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Dad’s China-Burma-India Page
""This page is dedicated to my Dad, Charles E. Hacking, and all those who worked and fought in the forgotten campaign, the CBI Theater. Dad was in the 18th Air Service Squadron of the 18th Air Force. These were the guys who worked on the ground making sure that our fighters and bombers had a place to land, a place to get fuel and ammunition and food and lodging for the pilots." My favorite clicks are the photos, letters, and other souvenirs found under Scrap Book.."
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Dad Rarey’s Sketchbook Journals
""In 1942 my father, George Rarey, a young cartoonist and commercial artist, was drafted into the Army Air Corps. He flew a P-47 before he drove a car. During his service he kept a cartoon journal of the daily life of the fighter pilots. A few weeks after D-Day he was killed in combat over France. His journals are a part of his legacy to me -- one that I want to share with others through this Web page.""
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Columbus Monument Pages
Reviewed August 14, 1999bya reader fromDelft, the Netherlandswho is affiliated with the site.I don’t think my rate or review will be useful, since I made the site myself! I show on this site the statues, monuments, plaques etc. in honor of Christopher Columbus all over the world. It is not especially designed for kids, but only for my own fun.
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Calendopaedia
"Since the dawn of civilization man has kept track of time by use of the sun, the moon, and the stars. Man noticed that time could be broken up into units of the day (the time taken for the earth to rotate once on its axis), the month (the time taken for the moon to orbit the earth) and the year (the time taken for the earth to orbit the sun). But since a month is not a whole number of days, nor a year a whole number of months or day, the task is not simple. ""The ways in which these problems were tackled down the centuries and across the world is the subject of this Web site."""
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