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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: man called Brown Condor
    sub title: the forgotten history of an African American fighter pilot
  name:
    name part: Simmons, Thomas E.
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 293 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The forgotten true story of American war hero John Charles Robinson, a.k.a. The Brown Condor of Ethiopia, and the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935. Simmons brings to life Robinson's success in becoming a pilot, his expertise in building and assembling his own working aircraft, his influence on the establishment of a school of aviation at Tuskegee Institute. More than a biography of a black pilot who became a US hero, this book provides insight on racial conditions in the first half of the twentieth century and illustrates the political intrigue within a League of Nations afraid to face the rise of Fascism.
  table of contents: Africa, 1954 -- Mississippi, 1910 -- Northbound -- Taste the wind -- Chicago, 1927 -- But will it fly? -- A twenty-dollar bet -- Hummingbird -- Tall tree, short cotton -- A world away -- Lonely voyage -- Marseilles -- Train from Djibouti -- Addis Ababa, 1935 -- Rocks in the clouds -- Audience with the Emperor -- Gathered at the river, 1935 -- Dogs and rabbits -- A lonely war -- Sportsmen and warriors -- Stranger to peace -- Reluctant hero -- Toward home -- Gulfport, 1936 -- Hard choices -- Once more to Africa.
  note: Thomas E. Simmons.
  note: "A Herman Graf book."
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [292]-293).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: f-et---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Robinson, John Charles
      name part: 1903-1954
  subject:
    topic: Air pilots
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Air pilots
    geographic: Ethiopia
  subject:
    topic: African American fighter pilots
    genre: Biography
  classification: TL540.R57 S57 2013
  classification: 629.13/092
  identifier: 9781620872178 :
  identifier: 162087217X
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 120330
    record change date: 20151204205240.0
    record identifier: in00003163384
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng