Download Full eBooks in PDF
U S Army Air Force Fighters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of U S Army Air Force Fighters book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : William Green,Gordon Swanborough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fighter planes
ISBN : 0668041692
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855
Author : Bernard C. Nalty,Alfred M. Beck
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257031
The four years between 1941 and 1945 were years in which the nation raised and trained an air armada and committed it to operations on a scale unknown to that time. With Courage: The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II retells the story of sacrifice, valor, and achievements in air campaigns against tough determined adversaries. It describes the development of a uniquely American doctrine for the application of air power against an opponent’s key industries and centers of national life, a doctrine whose legacy today is the Global Reach-Global Power strategic planning framework of the modern U.S. Air Force. The narrative integrates aspects of strategic intelligence, logistics, technology, and leadership to offer a full yet concise account of the contributions of American air power to victory in that war.—Print Ed.
Author : William Green,Gordon Swanborough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fighter planes
ISBN : 0668041692
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UIUC:30112002416938
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428915251
Author : William T. Y'Blood,Jacob Neufeld,Mary Lee Jefferson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UIUC:30112048632951
Author : Stephen Lee McFarland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UCBK:C062021095
Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:30000011650979
Author : Bernard C. Nalty,John F. Shiner,George M. Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UCR:31210012144414
In the last decade of the twentieth century, today's United States Air Force marks the fiftieth anniversary of its part in a national effort that opposed a coalition of enemies in a global war. American and allied air forces in the conflict for the first time achieved striking range and effectiveness making air power a force equal to that of traditional armies and navies. The Center for Air Force History has prepared this narrative to commemorate the accomplishments of American air power in World War II and present to the American people a record of valor in the name of freedom. Partial contents include : A Weapon and an Idea ; Europe in Flames ; In Desperate Battle ; Building Air Power ; Defeating Italy and Germany ; Victory Over Japan ; A New Age ; Theater Maps ; Air Forces Lineages.
Author : Mark F. Cancian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538140369
CSIS senior adviser Mark Cancian annually produces a series of white papers on U.S. military forces, including their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges. This report is a compilation of these papers and takes a deep look at each of the military services, the new Space Force, special operations forces, DOD civilians, and contractors in the FY 2021 budget. This report further includes a foreword regarding how the Biden administration might approach decisions facing the military forces, drawing on insights from the individual chapters.
Author : John J. Sullivan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476611396
On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord, the largest, most hazardous amphibious assault in history. The objective: establishment of a lodgment area in Normandy from which the Allies could strike at the heart of Germany and destroy the German armed forces. Air supremacy over northwest Europe was an absolute prerequisite for the success of the invasion, and to achieve it the U.S. Army Air Forces launched two campaigns aimed at destroying the Germans’ transportation advantages in the area. In the months and days leading up to the assault, the Army Air Forces ceaselessly bombed rail centers, rendering most of the railways in northern France and Belgium unusable. Once the actual invasion was underway, the Allies shifted to an interdiction campaign, using precise air attacks on critical transportation installations near the battlefield to neutralize Germany’s efforts to resupply and reinforce their troops. This work makes use of many wartime records that had remained classified until recently.
Author : Warren A. Trest
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112004823321
Traces the usage of- and meaning given to- the terms "roles and missions" relating to the armed forces and particularly to the United States Air Force, from 1907 to the present.
Author : William Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9070040565
Author : Christopher M. Rein
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 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.