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William M. Leary's Degrees

PhD History University of Georgia
Masters History University of Georgia
Bachelors History University of Georgia

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According to Wikipedia, William Matthew "Bill" Leary, Jr. was an American academic and aviation historian. For 32 years, Leary taught at the University of Georgia from which he retired as the E. Merton Coulter Professor of History in 2005.

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The Central Intelligence Agency (1984) (295)
"We Freeze to Please": A History of NASA's Icing Research Tunnel and the Quest for Flight Safety (2002) (36)
The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents (1984) (35)
Aerial Nationalism: A History of Aviation in Thailand (1994) (17)
Woodrow Wilson, Irish Americans, and the Election of 1916 (1967) (16)
Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia (1984) (13)
The CIA and the "Secret War" in Laos: The Battle for Skyline Ridge, 1971-1972 (1995) (6)
Project Coldfeet: Secret Mission to a Soviet Ice Station (1996) (6)
The diplomacy of world power: the United States, 1889-1920 (1970) (5)
From Airships to Airbus: The History of Civil and Commercial Aviation. Volume 2: Pioneers and Operations. (1996) (5)
Wings for China: The Jouett Mission, 1932-1935 (1969) (5)
Robert Fulton's Skyhook and Operation Coldfeet (1995) (5)
MacArthur and the American century : a reader (2001) (4)
Aviation's Golden Age: Portraits from the 1920s and 1930s (1991) (4)
We Shall Return! MacArthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan (1989) (4)
Aircraft and Anti-Communists: CAT in Action, 1949–52 (1972) (3)
Aerial Pioneers: The U.S. Air Mail Service, 1918-1927 (1987) (3)
The Dragon's Wings: The China National Aviation Corporation and the Development of Commercial Aviation in China (1978) (3)
Under Ice: Waldo Lyon and the Development of the Arctic Submarine (1999) (3)
The dragon's wings (1976) (2)
Wings of the CIA (2000) (2)
The Chennault Plan To Save China: U.S. Containment in Asia and the Origins of the CIA's Aerial Empire, 1949–1950 (1984) (2)
Books, Soldiers and Censorship During the Second World War (1968) (2)
Fueling the Fires of Resistance: Army Air Forces Special Operations in the Balkans During World War II (1995) (2)
The progressive era and the Great War, 1896-1920 (1969) (2)
At the Dawn of Commercial Aviation: Inglis M. Uppercu and Aeromarine Airways (1979) (2)
Optimizing cooling tower selections (1987) (1)
Anything, Anywhere, Any Time: Combat Cargo in the Korean War (2000) (1)
Richard P. Hallion.Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War. x + 531 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. $35 (cloth). (2004) (0)
THE PILOTS OF PHNOM PENH (1990) (0)
Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: The Airline Industry (1993) (0)
Writings on Civil Aviation: The State of the Art in Aviation History: The State of the Art. (1984) (0)
Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry Donald M. Pattillo (1999) (0)
OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War. By Maochun Yu. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xxiv, 340 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06698-8.) (1997) (0)
Infrastructure and environment (1995) (0)
On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini. By Barton C. Hacker and James M. Grimwood. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977. xx + 625 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical note, and index.) (1979) (0)
We Shall Return (2015) (0)
The Broken Seal: The Story of “Operation Magic” and the Pearl Harbor Disaster. By Ladislas Farago. (New York: Random House, 1967. 439 pp. Reference notes and index. $6.95.) (1967) (0)
High Frontier: A History of Aeronautics in Pennsylvania . By William F. Trimble. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 344. $12.95. (1983) (0)
EDWARD F. HAAS. DeLesseps S. Morrison and the Image of Reform: New Orleans Politics, 1946-1961. Pp. xii, 368. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. $12.95 (1976) (0)
Book Review:The Airway to Everywhere: A History of All American Aviation, 1937-1953 W. David Lewis, William F. Trimble (1989) (0)
We Shall Return! MacArthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan.@@@Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General. (1990) (0)
The Airline industry (1992) (0)
Fatty acid distribution in gram negative bacteria abstract pseudomonas aeruginosa enterobacteriaceae (1969) (0)
Smith of New Jersey : a biography of H. Alexander Smith, United States Senator from New Jersey, 1944-1959 (1967) (0)
Raiders of the China Coast: CIA Covert Operations During the Korean War (review) (2001) (0)
Book Review: MacArthur’s Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (2003) (0)
PILOTS' DIRECTIONS: THE TRANSCONTINENTAL AIRWAY AND ITS HISTORY (1ST ED. ) (1990) (0)
Air America : upholding the airmen’s bond (2009) (0)
Call Sign Rustic: The Secret War Over Cambodia, 1970-1973 (review) (2003) (0)
Stanley K. Hornbeck and the Open Door Policy, 1919-1937 Shizhang Hu (1996) (0)

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