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Kimberley´S Flight: The Story of Captain Kimberly Hampton, America’s First Woman Combat Pilot Killed in Battle
Anna Simon
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Description for Kimberley´S Flight: The Story of Captain Kimberly Hampton, America’s First Woman Combat Pilot Killed in Battle
Hardback. U.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 pages color photos. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS5; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514. The Story of Captain Kimberly Hampton, America's First Woman Combat Pilot Killed in Battle. 304 pages, 16 page colour photos. An all-American girl, a top scholar, student body president, ROTC battalion commander, and highly ranked college tennis player; and the first woman combat pilot killed in battle. Told through nearly fifty interviews and her own e-mails to family and friends, and is entwined with Ann Hampton's narrative of loving and losing a child. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS5; JWG. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 21. Weight: 514.
U.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Hampton was living her dream, flying armed helicopters in combat and commanding D Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry, the armed reconnaissance aviation squadron of the 82nd Airborne Division, when in January 2, 2004, whilst flying above Fallujah, Iraq, searching for an illusive sniper on the rooftops of the city, the helicopter crashed, killing her. A little past noon her helicopter was wracked by an explosion; a heat-seeking air-to-ground missile had gone into the exhaust and knocked off the helicopter’s tail boom. Kimberly’s Flight is the story of Captain Hampton’s exemplary life. This story is ... Read more
U.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Hampton was living her dream, flying armed helicopters in combat and commanding D Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry, the armed reconnaissance aviation squadron of the 82nd Airborne Division, when in January 2, 2004, whilst flying above Fallujah, Iraq, searching for an illusive sniper on the rooftops of the city, the helicopter crashed, killing her. A little past noon her helicopter was wracked by an explosion; a heat-seeking air-to-ground missile had gone into the exhaust and knocked off the helicopter’s tail boom. Kimberly’s Flight is the story of Captain Hampton’s exemplary life. This story is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781612001029
SKU
V9781612001029
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Ref
99-30
About Anna Simon
Award-winning journalist Anna Simon has been a reporter with The Greenville News in South Carolina since 1990. She received the South Carolina Press Association's first place award for Reporting in Depth in 2009, and is a past recipient of multiple awards in education reporting, the press association's Judson Chapman Award for Community Service, and other news and feature writing awards. ... Read more
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