The Enlisted Experience: A Conversation With the Chief Master Sergeants of the Air Force [paperback] Daly-Bednarek, Janet R. [Jun 01, 1995]

The Enlisted Experience: A Conversation With the Chief Master Sergeants of the Air Force

History

Americas

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NOTE: NO FURTHER DISOCUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the Kind of total victory they had experienced in World War II. In that earlier, larger war, victory over Japan came after two atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, in Korea five years later, the United States limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after Communist China entered the war, Americans put China off-limits to conventional bombing as well as nuclear bombing. Operating within these limits, the U.S. Air force helped to repel two invasions of South Korea while securing control of the skies so decisively that other United Nations forces could fight without fear of air attack.
This book tells the story of those limits from Invasion to Air Pressure as part of the Air Force’s Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Korean War veterans, U.S. Air Force veterans, historians, especially military historians, and high school students and above pursuing research for the Korean War may be interested in this resource. 
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Within Limits: The U.S. Force and the Korean War (Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition)

Wayne Thompson And Bernard C. Nalty

Asia

Description This authoritative official history deals with the early years of the Air Force's effort to build and maintain a strategic striking force, from 1945 through 1953. It discusses the period of reorganization in national defense in the years after the end of the Second World War, as the Army Air Forces dealt with questions of structure, doctrine, strategy, atomic weapons, and technology.

Building a Strategic Air Force

Moody, Walton S.

S/N 008-070-00728-2

Military

This is the oft quoted, seldom seen classic work of Giulio Douhet, long out of print in English. "In the pantheon of air power theorists, Giulio Douhet holds center stage." - Richard P. Hallion, The Air Force Historian. "Douhet reigns as one of the twentieth century's foremost strategic air power theorists. Along with William "Billy" Mitchell, Douhet understood that the technological advances in weaponry made during World War I were not fully utilized by Allied commanders. Douhet thus spent the decade after the war constructing a theory that would facilitate the strategic use of what he conceived to be the biggest technological breakthrough of all, the airplane. [...] Over time, [his] theories became institutionalized to the point that they were rarely questioned. Their influence was subsequently evident in strategic Air Force operations." - Air University Review, 1986

Command of the Air

Giulio Douhet

Describes the United States Air Force's close air support of the United States Army, from 1946 to 1973.

Help From Above: Air Force Close Air Support of the Army 1946-1973

Schlight, John

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last Presents a visual history of the Plum Brook reactor, including numerous images and captions, a narrative history, and selected primary documents. This work culminated in the atomic bomb. After the war, as Plum Brook's ordnance factories went silent, scientists continued their pursuit of nuclear knowledge by constructing test reactors. Timeline included within the Appendices section. Military personnel, especially strategists, leaders and soldiers may be most interested in this volume, students pursuing research about the Plum Brook facilitiy and the land used to house the military's explosives and gun powder. Related products:Building the Bombs: A History of the Nuclear Weapons Complex is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/061-000-00968-0 United States Army in World War 2, Special Studies, Manhattan, the Army, and the Atomic Bomb is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00132-2 Nuclear Weapons Gone Missing : What Does History Teach? is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/search/apachesolr_search/atomic%20bomb

Nasa's Nuclear Frontier: The Plum Brook Reactor Facility, 1941-2002

Business & Money

Mark D. Bowles

Education & Reference

This comprehensive official history probes the little-known story of how the Gulf War air campaign plan came to fruition. Based on archival documentation and interviews with United States Air Force planners, it takes the reader into the planning cells where the difficult work of building an air campaign plan was accomplished on an around-the-clock basis. It also places the complexities of the planning process within the context of coalition objectives in the Gulf War.

Airpower Advantage: Planning the Gulf War Air Campaign, 1989-1991

Diane Therese Putney

Air Force Combat Wings: Lineage and Honors Histories, 1947-1977 (Reference series)

The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia, 1961-73: An Illustrated Account

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Schools & Teaching

Air Force Integrates 1949-64

Gropman, Alan L.

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