Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation
Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation by Sara Witter Connor
English | Feb 18, 2014 | ISBN: 1626193509 | 288 Pages | AZW3/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 17 MB
English | Feb 18, 2014 | ISBN: 1626193509 | 288 Pages | AZW3/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 17 MB
Wisconsin's trees heard "Timber!" during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Timber Terror," while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood and glue.