A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert

The Resource A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert

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A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert

Title remainder

growing up in America's secret desert

Statement of responsibility

Karen Piper

Title variation

Growing up in America's secret desert

Language

eng

Summary

The China Lake missile range in the Mojave Desert was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were the Piper family. Karen's dad designed the Sidewinder. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, set off down a Los Angeles freeway, and even stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper's memoir also reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

358.1/7092
B

Illustrations

illustrations
plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

VF373

LC item number

.P57 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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