Black and White Airmen: Their True History Hardcover - 2007
by Fleischman, John
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- Hardcover
John Leahr and Herb Heilbrun became pilots during World War II, but they never met because the army was rigidly segregated--only in the air were black and white American fliers allowed to mix. Fifty years later, they met and discovered their lives had run almost side by side. Photos.
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Details
- Title Black and White Airmen: Their True History
- Author Fleischman, John
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarion Books, Boston
- Date 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0618562974I3N10
- ISBN 9780618562978 / 0618562974
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 7.82 x 0.76 in (22.91 x 19.86 x 1.93 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 1050
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Library of Congress subjects United States, African Americans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006017059
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Here is the true history of a friendship that almost wasn’t.
John Leahr and Herb Heilbrun grew up in the same neighborhood and were in the same third grade class together. They were classmates—not friends—because Herb was white and John was black.
John and Herb were twenty-one when the United States entered WWII. Herb became an Army Air Forces B-17 bomber pilot. John flew P-51 fighters. Both were thrown into the brutal high-altitude bomber war against Nazi Germany, though they never met because the army was rigidly segregated—only in the air were black and white American fliers allowed to mix.
Both came safely home but it took Herb and John another fifty years to meet again and discover that their lives had run almost side by side through war and peace. Old friends at last, Herb and John launched a mission to tell young people why race once made all the difference and why it shouldn’t anymore.
John Leahr and Herb Heilbrun grew up in the same neighborhood and were in the same third grade class together. They were classmates—not friends—because Herb was white and John was black.
John and Herb were twenty-one when the United States entered WWII. Herb became an Army Air Forces B-17 bomber pilot. John flew P-51 fighters. Both were thrown into the brutal high-altitude bomber war against Nazi Germany, though they never met because the army was rigidly segregated—only in the air were black and white American fliers allowed to mix.
Both came safely home but it took Herb and John another fifty years to meet again and discover that their lives had run almost side by side through war and peace. Old friends at last, Herb and John launched a mission to tell young people why race once made all the difference and why it shouldn’t anymore.
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/01/2007, Page 57
- Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2007, Page 21
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2007, Page 448
- Kirkus Review - Children, 06/01/2007, Page 554
- School Library Journal, 06/01/2007, Page 168
- Voice of Youth Advocates, 04/01/2007, Page 78
