Air Corps Newsletter
Author | : Air Corps. War Department |
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Total Pages | : 626 |
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Author | : Air Corps. War Department |
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Author | : United States. President's Aircraft Board |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Commercial |
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Author | : Air Corps. War Department |
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Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : Robert T. Finney |
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1955 |
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In the 1930s, the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, was the nurturing ground for American air doctrine. Those who studied and taught there were the same individuals who prepared America for war, and then led its airmen into combat.
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 363 |
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ISBN | : 142891692X |
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 213 |
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ISBN | : 1428912576 |
Author | : Phil Haun |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813176794 |
Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland. The bombing of cities was seen as a means to collapse the enemy's will to resist and bring the war to a quick end. In the United States, airmen called for an independent air force, but with the nation's return to isolationism, there was little appetite for an offensive air power doctrine. By the 1930s, however, a cadre of officers at the US Army Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) had articulated an operational concept of high-altitude daylight precision bombing (HADPB) that would be the foundation for a uniquely American vision of strategic air attack. In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II editor Phil Haun brings together nine ACTS lecture transcripts, which have been preserved in Air Force archives, exactly as delivered to the airmen destined to lead the US Army Air Forces in World War II. Presented is a distinctive American strategy of high-altitude daylight precision bombing as told through lectures given at the ACTS during the interwar period and how these airmen put the theory to the test. The book examines the Air Corps theory of HADPB as compared to the reality of combat in World War II by relying on recent, revisionist histories that have given scholars a deeper understanding of the impact of strategic bombing on Germany.
Author | : Maurer Maurer |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 1428915850 |
Author | : John F. Shiner |
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Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Fighter planes |
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Author | : General Giulio Douhet |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782898522 |
In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.