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Author : Army Air Force Historical Office,Headquarters Army Air Forces
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1782662316
Author : Colonel F. Randall Starbuck
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782897491
The hastily mounted invasion of French Northwest Africa in November of 1942 was a gamble. It exposed American inexperience. That inexperience went from Roosevelt on down to the soldier in the foxhole. Half-trained men were pitted against Vichy France and didn’t know whether to expect open arms or open fire. Later, those same inexperienced men would meet Rommel at the Kasserine Pass. This naivete was exhibited by both men and leaders. Torch was Eisenhower’s first major operation--a gigantic airlift and sealift preceded by months of intrigue. The outcome of the campaign settled several air power issues and revealed many lessons. The battles fought by the United States forces during the North African Campaign of 1942 and 1943, particularly the Battle for the Kasserine Pass in February 1943, were a breaking and testing ground for much of the employment of those forces during the remainder of the Second World War. Three air power key lessons were learned on the North African battlefield. First was the need for coordination between air and ground forces. Second was the folly of sending untrained airmen into combat. Third was the importance of tactical air targeting by ground force commanders.
Author : James T. Controvich,Martin Gordon
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0810850109
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.
Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210024769414
En gennemgang af udviklingen inden for taktisk flystøtte
Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428992986
Author : Robert L. Richardson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811765725
The World War II fighter-pilot story On the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets. Retreating German infantry unexpectedly pounded the American flyers. Knepper was one of two shot down; he was never found. Knepper’s story is the story-in-microcosm of thousands of American fighter pilots in World War II. Richardson recounts Knepper’s experiences from training through combat and uses them to discuss the aircraft, tactics and doctrine, training, base life, and aerial combat of the war. This is the intimate account of one pilot at war, but also the anatomy of the fighter-pilot experience in World War II.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855
Author : Christopher M. Rein
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700618781
In the summer of 1942, Axis forces controlled almost the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean. Less than a year later, they had been swept from the African continent-thanks in no small part to efforts of the fledgling U.S. Army Air Force. Indeed, USAAF in North Africa emerged as a senior partner in the Alliance, supplying aircraft and crews at a rate the other partners were unable to match. Going beyond the spare analysis of North African air operations in previous accounts, Christopher Rein shows how American fighter planes and heavy bombers, employed in almost exclusively tactical and operational roles, played a pivotal role in the Alliance's successful ground campaigns. This aerial armada also had a significant negative impact on enemy logistics through its bombing raids on Axis ports, shipping, and airfields. In the process, USAAF helped foster and develop a pattern of inter-service cooperation that remains at the foundation of American close-air-support doctrine today. Rein chronicles the emergence of USAAF in the late interwar and early WWII periods as a more heterogeneous and creative fighting force than earlier works have led us to believe. He then analyzes little-known aspects of the war, including early air operations in the eastern Mediterranean and in the TORCH landings. He explores some of the key issues confronting Eisenhower, such as how to establish USAAF priorities and how to deploy long-range bombers, fighters, and attack forces. In describing the struggle for balance in the employment of air assets between strategic bombing and interdiction in a time fraught with inter-service rivalry, he shows how, despite occasional mistakes such as the heavy losses involved in the Ploesti raids, USAAF struck a suitable balance and even invested more assets in interdiction than traditional accounts of strategic bombardment would suggest. A virtual operational-level history of the USAAF during the formative period of American airpower, Rein's account pulls together material from diverse sources to demonstrate that today's Air Force emphasis on mobility, intelligence, reconnaissance, and close support for ground forces have deep roots. By showing that the Army Air Force in World War II did not neglect support for ground and naval forces in order to concentrate exclusively on strategic bombing, it suggests lessons for military and civilian leaders in the employment of air forces in current and future conflicts.
Author : David Mets
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780891416395
“A valuable and long-overdue biography of one of America’s greatest soldiers.”—Parameters The story of Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz’s life is more than a biography of one of America’s great military leaders. It is a history of the development of airpower, and a fascinating, inside look at the long, difficult struggle to win autonomy for the U.S. Air Force. Spaatz earned his wings in 1918, when flying was a new and dangerous occupation; aviation school mortality rates were 18 percent. After gaining experience as a fighter pilot during the “Great War,” he became one of the Air Corps’ top pursuit commanders during the 1920s. During the 1930s, he moved over to bombers just as modern, long range aircraft were coming into service. As a senior bomber commander, Spaatz significantly influenced the emerging strategic bomber doctrine. By the time of the outbreak of the Second World War, Spaatz was one of America’s most experienced aviators. He was at the helm of the evolution of the new American military “strategic airpower” doctrine, which proved to be a decisive factor in World War II. After the Allied victory, planning and launching an independent Air Force would occupy Spaatz for the remainder of his career. Today’s Air Force bears his indelible stamp. “Tooey” Spaatz was a low-profile leader who was known for his open mind and pragmatic approach, and who was influential in a quiet, forceful way. Possessed of absolute integrity, even when his beliefs were unpopular, he pressed them at the risk of his career.
Author : Stewart W. Bentley, Jr
Publisher : Author House
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449023867
Colonel William C. Bentley Jr. was a member of the small elite group of U.S. Army Air Corps officers who formed the genesis for the development of what we now know as the U.S. Air Force. He was not only rated as a Command Pilot and was a test pilot on the B-17, but he was a doctrinal visionary in airlanding tactics and serving as an advocate for servicemembers higher education. Colonel Bentley commanded the Paratroop Task Force during Operation Torch; the longest and first airborne mission in American military history. He was the first graduate of the University of Maryland's off campus degree completion program.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UIUC:30112037794762
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026311006
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UIUC:30112002416938
Author : Bryn Evans
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783462605
Compared to the RAF's Fighter and Bomber Commands, the Desert Air Force (DAF) is far less well known, yet its achievements were spectacular.??DAF led the way in North Africa and Italy in pioneering new tactics in close Army-Air Force co-operation on the battlefield, DAF and Allied air forces gave Allied armies in North Africa and Italy a decisive cutting edge.??While the Axis forces used the many rivers and mountains of Tunisia and Italy to slow the Allies' advance, DAF was there to provide that extra mobile firepower _ the artillery from the sky. They were the first multi-national air force, and the first to introduce air controllers in the front lines of the battlefield.??With first-hand accounts by veteran airmen form Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA, this book reveals the decisive victories with which DAF won the war over North Africa, the Mediterranean and Italy in 1942-45.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : IND:30000046142539