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Author: John W. Lambert
Publisher: Phalanx Publishing
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beretter om de amerikanske luftoperationer i Stillehavskrigen under 2. verdenskrig
Author: John W. Lambert
Publisher: Phalanx Publishing
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beretter om de amerikanske luftoperationer i Stillehavskrigen under 2. verdenskrig
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1428915427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leatrice R. Arakaki
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published by Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9328 for the Pacific Air Forces Office of History, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Chester G. Hearn
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781610606943
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From its beginnings in 1907 as the Aeronautical Division of U.S. Armys Signal Corps, which consisted of one officer and two enlisted men, the United States Air Force has grown to become the foremost aerial armed force in the world. Although they had to fly French and British planes as the fledgling army aeronautical bureaucracy failed to procure any combat-worthy American aircraft, which arguably did not exist, American aviators performed valiantly in World War I with intrepid pilots of the such as Eddie Rickenbacker and Frank Luke leading the way. Between the wars, all of aviation, commercial and military around the world grew by leaps and bounds as the numbers of aircraft in service and their capabilities tremendously increased. Although the Army Air Corps, as it was known at the time, was no better prepared for World War II than the rest of the army, it had developed a highly professional corps of experienced officers who would be able to take advantage of the latest American aircraft technology such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and the P-51 Mustang. With the end of the war and the creation of an independent armed force in 1947, the United States Air Force leapt into the jet age with such icons as the F-86 Sabre and the remarkable B-52 Stratofortress, which "soldiers" on today more than fifty years after going into service in 1955 and with the youngest of the 744 plane production run being forty years old, having been built in 1962.Air Force covers the entire history of the U.S. Air Force and its development from its beginnings early in the last century to becoming the worlds largest, most powerful, and most versatile air-combat force. Special attention is paid to the air forces recent, post-Vietnam history, and an entire chapter is devoted to Americas air force of the future.
Author: James T. Controvich
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780810850101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This bibliography lists published and printed unit histories for the United States Air Force and Its Antecedents, including Air Divisions, Wings, Groups, Squadrons, Aviation Engineers, and the Women's Army Corps.
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 1436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vols. 41, no. 11-v. 42, no. 5 include Space digest, v. 1-2, no. 5, Nov. 1958-May 1959.
Author: Richard B. Clark
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1993-05
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 1568064462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes Saddam Hussein and Iraqi Air Power; The Air Force Mission; The big Lesson from Desert Storm Air Base Attacks; The New AFM 1-1; O Clubs; and Close Air Support. Black and white photos.
Author: United States. Department of the Air Force
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leatrice R. Arakaki
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published by Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9328 for the Pacific Air Forces Office of History, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Jack Lambert Norman Polmar
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Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781610607148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When these two [authors] combine their considerable experience, the reader has to pay attention. Naval Aviation NewsIn 1999, by a vote of 52 to 47, the U.S. Senate cleared the names of Admiral Husband Kimmel and Lieutenant General Walter Short of blame for leaving Pearl Harbor vulnerable to attack. According to the declaration, Kimmel and Short had performed their duties "competently and professionally," and that America's losses at Pearl were "not the result of dereliction of duty." Revisionist historians have been trying for years to portray Short and Kimmel as innocent scapegoats. However, Major General Kenneth Bergquist is among the many witnesses who went to their graves crying "foul," but not before telling their stories to historians Jack Lambert and Norman Polmar.This book combines the evidence of never-before-seen photos and documents, Lambert's taped interviews with some of the last surviving witnesses, exhaustive research of all remaining evidence, Polmar's perspective as naval warfare commentator for the History Channel, and Barry Levenson's legal experience trying cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, to finally put the case of the tragic failure of command and dereliction of duty leading up to December 7, 1941, to rest.Senator Strom Thurmond called Kimmel and Short "the final two victims of Pearl Harbor." In reality, was the last victim the truth?