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Captain Robert N. Buck retired from TWA after having flown well over two thousand Atlantic crossings and thirty-seven years of service as chief pilot and director of thunderstorm research. During World War II he was engaged in weather research for the U.S. Air Corps, for which he was awarded,... read more
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IT WAS LATE FALL, with the brilliant colors already turning dull.
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- Robert N. Buck (Author)
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- Dewey: 920
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- Books › History › World › Transportation › Aviation
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Travel
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