Books written by Wayne Mutza
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The Flame Within: Memoir of a Firefighter
The book fully displays the humanity of members of the fire service and the flavor of fire service tradition.
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Helicopter Gunships: Deadly Combat Weapon Systems
This book also explores fascinating post-war programs like the experimental Comanche, Blackhawk, and Apache.
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Gunships: The Story of Spooky, Shadow, Stinger and Spectre
Gunships: The Story of Spooky, Shadow, Stinger, and Spectre tells the dramatic story of transforming military cargo transports into deadly ground-attack aircraft used by the U.S. and other countries in worldwide conflicts from the Vietnam ...
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Walk Around AH-1 Cobra
Born out of a need for an armed escort for US Airmobile forces in Vietnam, the Bell AH-1 Cobra went on to become the US Army's premier attack helicopter from Vietnam to the 1980s, when the Army began replacing the Cobra with the new AH-64 ...
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Engines and Other Apparatus of the Milwaukee Fire Department: An Illustrated History
Delivered during 1992 and 1993, the half dozen were built by W.S. Darley and Co. using Ford L-9000 model chassis and cabs. Darley is unique among apparatus manufacturers as the only company that continues to make its own pumps.
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Engines and Other Apparatus of the Milwaukee Fire Department: An Illustrated History
Milwaukee's Town of Lake. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2013. Wood, Donald F., and Wayne Sorensen. Big City Fire Trucks, Vol. I: 1900–1950. Iola, WI: Krause, 1996. _____ and _____. Big City Fire Trucks, Vol. II: 1951–1996.
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American Fire Apparatus: pumpers
This volume traces the development of the chief and best-known fire-fighting apparatus, the pumper or fire engine, from hand-drawn pumps, through horse-drawn vehicles in the 19th Century to the advanced fire trucks of the 21st Century.
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Grumman Albatross: A History of the Legendary Seaplane
The Albatross was the premier fixed-wing rescue aircraft for the U.S. Air Force and Coast Guard.
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The US Air Force Air Rescue Service: An Illustrated History
This definitive work on air rescue operations of the US Army Air Force and US Air Force takes the reader from the birth of the service during World War II, through the Korean and Vietnam Wars, to present-day operations in Iraq and ...
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Bell 47/H-13 Sioux Helicopter: Military and Civilian Use, 1946 to the Present
Famously pictured in the opening credits of the popular television series M.A.S.H., Bell's Model 47 helicopter was the first helicopter certified for civilian use in March 1946 and went on to serve a wide variety of military and civilian ...
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Gunships: The Story of Spooky, Shadow, Stinger and Spectre
Gunships: The Story of Spooky, Shadow, Stinger, and Spectre tells the dramatic story of transforming military cargo transports into deadly ground-attack aircraft used by the U.S. and other countries in worldwide conflicts from the Vietnam ...