NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last Examines the role of the Army Air Force in support of the activities of Yugoslavian partisans fighting the Axis powers in the Balkans in World War 2. Related products:Yugoslavia From "National Communism" to National Collapse: US Intelligence Community Estimative Products on Yugoslavia, 1948-1990 (Book and CD-ROM) can be purchased here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/041-015-00252-0World War II resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world-war-ii  Faith and Hope in a War-Torn Land: The US Army Chaplaincy in the Balkans, 1995-2005 --Paperback format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00440-2Other products produced by the U.S. Air Force can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/888

Fueling the Fires of Resistance: Army Air Forces Special Operations in the Balkans During World War II (U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II)

History

Leary, William M.

Europe

Department of the Air Force

General Douglas MacArthur has been hailed as the greatest soldier in American history. While not everyone would agree with that assessment, there is no question that MacArthur played a prominent role in the emergence of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century. A distinguished combat soldier during World War I and an innovative educator at West Point in the 1920s, MacArthur became the army’s chief of staff during the Great Depression. He went abroad in the 1930s to prepare the Philippines for war. His stand against the Japanese following Pearl Harbor made him a national hero, and his subsequent campaign against Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific only added to his reputation. The Korean War gave MacArthur a final opportunity to display his military skills. MacArthur and the American Century assembles for the first time a nuanced and full scrutiny of MacArthur’s entire career. Essays by such experts as Stanley L. Falk and D. Clayton James accompany materials by Dwight D. Eisenhower and MacArthur himself, providing analysis and evaluation of the immense impact this dramatic figure had on war, peace, and the American imagination.

Macarthur and the American Century: A Reader

Americas

Bison Books

Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secret "air force" in Korea, then "the most shot-at airline in the world" in French Indochina, and eventually becoming reorganized as Air America at the height of the Vietnam War. William M. Leary's detailed operational history of CAT sets the story in the perspective of Asian and Cold War geopolitics and shows how CAT allowed the CIA to operate with a level of flexibility and secrecy that it would not have attained through normal military or commercial air transportation.

Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia

Military

Univ of Alabama Pr

Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secret "air force" in Korea, then "the most shot-at airline in the world" in French Indochina, and eventually becoming reorganized as Air America at the height of the Vietnam War. William M. Leary's detailed operational history of CAT sets the story in the perspective of Asian and Cold War geopolitics and shows how CAT allowed the CIA to operate with a level of flexibility and secrecy that it would not have attained through normal military or commercial air transportation.

Asia

University Alabama Press

Traces the origins of the U.S. Air Mail Service, describes the challenges that faced early Air Mail Service pilots, and describes how they paved the way for commercial aviation

Aerial Pioneers: The U.S. Air Mail Service, 1918-1927

Business & Money

Smithsonian

Progressive Era and the Great War, 1896-1920. 2d Ed (Goldentree Bibliographies in American History)

Harlan Davidson

Book by Leary, William M., Link, Authur S.

Progressive Era and the Great War, 1896-1920

Link, Authur S.

In Under Ice, William Leary examines the evolution of Arctic submarine operations in the U.S. Navy, a little-known but significant area of national security concern. Through the career of Waldo Lyon, he chronicles the problems of under-ice navigation and the development of Cold War naval strategy. In World War II, the Arctic became an active theater of operations for German and Soviet subs, which occasionally ducked under the ice to escape detection. The U.S. Navy responded with its own advances in underwater navigation and location, under Lyon’s direction. After the war, Lyon’s interest in cold-water acoustics led him to work on sonar and navigation instruments that could be applied to Arctic submarines. His specialization led to the establishment of the Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) and the development of under-ice capability for nearly all U.S. subs, which became even more important with the growth of the Cold War and the corresponding growth of naval concern about the possibilities of nuclear warfare in Arctic regions. Lyon led the way in U.S. under-ice submarine development. In 1958, with the launching of the nuclear submarine Nautilus, the Arctic Ocean beneath the pack ice could finally be fully explored. Today, under-ice operations are standard for submarines of the United States and other nations. Leary provides informative treatments of the early problems with under-ice navigation; the Boarfish experimental dives; the Skate’s torpedo firing into ice; making contact with Drifting Station Alpha; and the drama-packed patrol of Seadragon, the first submarine to pass under an iceberg. He ably delineates the roles of such other actors in the drama as Robert McWethy, commanding officer of the Burton Sound; the “fabulous patrol” of the Sargo; CDR Joseph Skoog, who played poker while his crew transited the dangerous Arctic waters at high speed; and war hero Lawson Ramage, who incorrectly forecast that the Soviets would never develop under-ice capability. Under Ice tells a lively and carefully researched story that will be important for naval and Cold War historians and for students of science and technology, especially those interested in post-1945 DOD-funded science.

Under Ice: Waldo Lyon and the Development of the Arctic Submarine (Volume 62) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)

Texas A&M University Press

Of all the Army Air Forces' many operations in the Second World War, none was more demanding or important than those supporting the activity of resistance groups fighting the Axis powers.  The special operations supporting the Yugoslavian partisans fighting the forces of Nazism in the Balkans required particular dedication and expertise.  Balkan flying conditions demanded the best of flying skills, and the tenacious German defenses in that troubled region complicated this challenge even further.  In this study, Professor William Leary examines what might fairly be considered one of the most important early experiences in the history of Air Force special operations.  It is ironic that, fifty years after these activities, the Air Force today is heavily involved in Balkan operations, including night air drops of supplies.  But this time, the supplies are for humanitarian relief, not war.  The airlifters committed to relieving misery in that part of the world follow in the wake of their predecessors who, fifty years ago, flew the night skies with courage and skill to help bring an end to Nazi tyranny.

Fueling the Fires of Resistance: Army Air Forces Special Operations in the Balkans during World War II

University Press of the Pacific

"We Freeze to Please": A History of NASA's Icing Research Tunnel and the Quest for Flight Safety

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Fueling the Fires of Resistance: Army Air Forces Special Operations in the Balkans During World War II (U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II)

Macarthur and the American Century: A Reader

Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia

Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia

Aerial Pioneers: The U.S. Air Mail Service, 1918-1927

Progressive Era and the Great War, 1896-1920. 2d Ed (Goldentree Bibliographies in American History)

Progressive Era and the Great War, 1896-1920

Under Ice: Waldo Lyon and the Development of the Arctic Submarine (Volume 62) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)

Fueling the Fires of Resistance: Army Air Forces Special Operations in the Balkans during World War II

"We Freeze to Please": A History of NASA's Icing Research Tunnel and the Quest for Flight Safety