Tactical Employment of the Air Corps (tentative)
Author: Command and General Staff School (U.S.)
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Command and General Staff School (U.S.)
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Marine Corps
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The purpose of this text is to provide a tentative doctrine for the employment of aviation units, to be used primarily as a reference for staff and students of the Marine Corps Schools in connection with the course in aviation tactics" -- p. v.
Author: United States. Air Corps Tactical School (Langley Field)
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 3208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel K. R. Crosswell
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010-10-05
Total Pages: 1090
ISBN-13: 0813126495
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first full biography of Smith, a fascinating American soldier and diplomat who began his career in 1911 as a private in the Indiana National Guard, and retired as a four-star general.
Author: Major Gary C. Cox
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 1786250373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study examines the development and usefulness of US air attack theory and doctrine during the interwar period, 1919-1941. This period represents more than twenty years of development in US Air Corps attack theory and doctrine. It was the first peacetime period of such development. Attack aviation during this time was a branch of aviation used to provide direct and indirect combat support to ground forces in the form of machine gun strafing, light bombing, and chemical attacks. From the earliest origins, attack theory and doctrine evolved primarily along two paths direct and indirect support of ground and air force objectives. The direct support approach was based on fundamental beliefs by the Army that attack aviation was an auxiliary combat arm, to be used directly on the battlefield against ground forces and to further the ground campaign plan. The indirect support approach, or air interdiction, was derived from the fundamental beliefs by the Air Corps that attack aviation was best used beyond the battle line and artillery range, against targets more vulnerable and less heavily defended, to further both the Air Force mission and the ground support mission. As attack doctrine evolved, range and hardened targets became problematic for the single-engine attack plane. Thus, attack theory and doctrine in terms of the indirect support approach, was adequately developed to be useful at the start of WWII. The use of light and medium bombers in North Africa showed the effectiveness of air interdiction and the indirect approach. Attack aviation had, indeed, established itself before WWII. Attack aviation, in the form of close air support, would have to wait for the lessons of WWII.
Author: Herman S. Wolk
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Published: 2002-07-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781410200921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this excellent work of narrative and analysis, Herman Wolk of the Office of Air Force History untangles the complex history that led to the birth of the United States Air Force after World War II. After surveying the struggle for independence to 1941, and planning during World War II for a postwar air force, Mr. Wolk details the evens that resulted in the formation of a separate Air Force in September 1947. Significantly, the new Air Force at its birth already possessed a long history and a rich heritage; some forty years as part of the Army, service in two world wars, and a fully developed understanding of its usefulness in war. The new Air Force already possessed leaders who knew that how the service was constructed and how it was led and administered would affect how air power could be used, and whether it could contribute fully to the nation's security.