Tag: Medal

April 4, 2023

Fly Boy Heroes The Stories of the Medal of Honor Recipients of the Air War Against Japan [Audiobook]

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Free Download Fly Boy Heroes: The Stories of the Medal of Honor Recipients of the Air War Against Japan (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZDT61CC | 2023 | 13 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 378 MB
Author: James H. Hallas
Narrator: Bob Souer
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W. Finn, though suffering multiple wounds, continued to man his machine gun against waves of Japanese aircraft attacking the Kaneohe Bay Naval Station during the infamous Pearl Harbor raid. Just over three years later, as World War II struggled into its final months, a B-29 radioman named Red Erwin lingered near death after suffering horrific burns to save his air crew in the skies off Japan. They were the first and last of thirty U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps aviation personnel awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions against the Japanese during World War II.

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April 3, 2023

Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861-1864

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Free Download Marsha Driscoll, "Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1861-1864 "
English | ISBN: 1469670771 | 2022 | 176 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Since its appearance in 1859, Darwin’s long-awaited treatise in "genetic biology" had received reviews both favorable and damning. Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce presented arguments for and against the theory in a dramatic and widely publicized face-off at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford. Their encounter sparked a vigorous, complex debate that touched on a host of issues and set the stage for the Royal Society’s consideration of whether they ought to award Darwin the Copley Medal, the society’s most prestigious prize. While the action takes place in meetings of the Royal Society, Great Britain’s most important scientific body, a parallel and influential public argument smolders over the nature of science and its relationship to modern life in an industrial society.

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