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    612-822-4611

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Rings of Fire: How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II

Rings of Fire: How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II

Hughes, Larry J.

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringGeologyWorld War II

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 0811773892
ISBN13: 9780811773898
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: Jun 18 2024
Pages: 600
Weight: 2.06
Height: 1.36 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.47
Language: English
An epic story, filled with an unfolding array of evocatively described landscapes and sharply drawn, unforgettable people.

--Dayton Duncan, writer and producer for Ken Burns documentary films and author of fourteen books on American history and national parks

Edwin Land had barely settled into his seat on the plane when the flash went off. An idea for an innovative WWII technology that might help eradicate the fascist cancer devouring the free world. It was Polaroid's Optical Ring Sight, which magically projected a bullseye of brilliantly colored rings onto the sky--like rings of fire--to aim American antiaircraft guns that previously couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

Rings of Fire is the compelling story of American ingenuity, determination, and grit--told through the personal stories of the amazing people who transformed insight into gunsight. From scientists to ordinary Americans to drifters and ex-cons characterized as the underbelly of America, they crossed cultural barriers to tackle a shared crisis:

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