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Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one
British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on
Japanese-held Hong Kong. Commander John Lamade started the war in
1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just over three
years later he was in the cockpit of a cutting-edge Hellcat about
to lead a strike force of 80 aircraft through the turbulent skies
above the South China Sea. His target: Hong Kong. As a storm of
antiaircraft fire darkened the sky, watching from below was POW Ray
Jones. For three long years he and his fellow prisoners had endured
near starvation conditions in a Japanese internment camp. Did these
American aircraft, he wondered, herald freedom? Trawling through
historic records, Steven K. Bailey discovered that the story of the
U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong during the final
year of World War II had never been told. Operation Gratitude
involved nearly 100 U.S. Navy warships and close to a thousand
planes. Target Hong Kong brings this massive operation down to a
human scale by recounting the air raids through the experiences of
seven men whose lives intersected at Hong Kong in January 1945:
Commander John D. Lamade, five of his fellow U.S. Navy pilots and
the POW Ray Jones. Drawing upon oral histories, diary transcripts,
and U.S. Navy documents, this book expertly narrates the
intertwined experiences of these servicemen to bring the history to
life.
In their second edition of Combating Corruption, Encouraging
Ethics, William L. Richter and Frances Burke update this essential
staple to delve deeply into the unique ethical problems of
twenty-first century public administration. Wide-ranging readings
from Aristotle and Kant to John Kennedy and John T. Noonan provide
initiation into the philosophical basis of ethics as virtue,
consequence, principle, and responsibility, while new case studies
drawn from today's headlines join old classics from the previous
edition to help students apply ethical foundations to a modern
administrative career. New chapters on privacy, secrecy, and
confidentiality and the changing boundaries of public
administration consider the consequences of computerization and
globalization, two of this century's greatest challenges. By
seamlessly melding theory with practice, Richter and Burke have
created a key resource in educating future public administrators on
the ethical problems associated with corruption, deception, evasion
of accountability, and the abuse of authority. Open-ended examples
and discussion questions encourage students to understand the
complexity of administrative ethics and the need for careful
thought in their day-to-day decisions. Combating Corruption,
Encouraging Ethics offers both the depth demanded by graduate
courses in administrative ethics and the accessibility necessary
for an undergraduate introduction to public administration.
An Education of Value is about the problems involved in reforming
American schools - in the past and in the decades to come. The
authors consider the historical, political, and philosophical
tensions between the perennial twin goals of American education:
equality and excellence. They discuss the necessary preconditions
for enduring progress: enhancing the conditions of teaching,
improving the education and re-education of teachers, rethinking
the curriculum, developing learning through the use of computers,
and strengthening the leadership of schools. The issues raised in
this book concern every modern society, and the authors' ideas will
challenge a wide audience.
Bold Venture tells an important and riveting untold wartime story
of the American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong Kong
during the Second World War. Steven K. Bailey sheds light on a key
narrative about a larger American campaign against Japanese forces
throughout occupied China. Bailey begins with the discovery of an
unexploded one-thousand-pound bomb in Hong Kong in 2014, which
unfolds a rich history of American heavy bombers in World War II.
As Bailey fills in the missing gaps of these heavy bombers' role in
World War II, he reveals the story behind the American air raids
and the airmen who were eventually shot down over Hong Kong. Bold
Venture's exploration of World War II and its aftermath in Hong
Kong goes into detail about the British civilians and soldiers who
were released from prison and repatriated, and a U.S. military
investigative team's recovery of the remains of the crew of Bold
Venture, the B-25 that went down in Hong Kong in March 1945. Today
unexploded aircraft bombs are unearthed with frightening regularity
by construction crews in Hong Kong. Residents are eager to know
where these bombs originated, who dropped them, when they dropped
them, and what--or who--the targets were. Bailey's account helps
answer some of these questions and also provides a unique
historical perspective for Americans seeking to understand our
contemporary military context and the complexities of foreign
military involvement.
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