Author: LONG, EVERETT A. & I. SHABALIANA & O. MIKHAYLOVA & TATIANA LONG REZNIK
Title: Cobras over the Tundra
Description: Reno, NV: Arktika Pub, 2001. 2nd Printing. Softcover. ISBN: 0963457810. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the author, on the title page. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. "The route was developed in 1942 for several reasons. Initially, the 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command, United States Army Air Corps (later Air Transport Command) at Gore Field (Great Falls Municipal Airport) was ordered to organize and develop an air route to send assistance to the Soviet Union through Northern Canada, across Alaska and the Bering Sea to Siberia, and eventually over to the Eastern Front. The US-Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Defense decided in the autumn of 1940 that a string of airports should be constructed at Canadian expense between the city of Edmonton in central Alberta and the Alaska-Yukon border. Late in 1941 the Canadian government reported that rough landing fields had been completed." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Near Fine .
Keywords: 0963457810 World War II Everett Long Tatiana Long Alaska-siberia Route 7th Ferrying Group Alaskan Tundra Signed Edition
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Title: Cobras over the Tundra
Description: Reno, NV: Arktika Pub, 2001. 2nd Printing. Softcover. ISBN: 0963457810. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the author, on the title page. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. "The route was developed in 1942 for several reasons. Initially, the 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command, United States Army Air Corps (later Air Transport Command) at Gore Field (Great Falls Municipal Airport) was ordered to organize and develop an air route to send assistance to the Soviet Union through Northern Canada, across Alaska and the Bering Sea to Siberia, and eventually over to the Eastern Front. The US-Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Defense decided in the autumn of 1940 that a string of airports should be constructed at Canadian expense between the city of Edmonton in central Alberta and the Alaska-Yukon border. Late in 1941 the Canadian government reported that rough landing fields had been completed." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Near Fine .
Keywords: 0963457810 World War II Everett Long Tatiana Long Alaska-siberia Route 7th Ferrying Group Alaskan Tundra Signed Edition
Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 42925
- Book number: 42925
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