Air Warfare and Air Base Defense: 1914-1973

History

Kries, John F.

Military

Office of Air Force History

The Army Air Forces in World War II (7 Volume Set)

Ettinger, R. C. W.

Slight shelf wear, crease to cover. Marker Dot on top page edge. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

The Command of the Air (USAF Warrior Studies)

Science & Math

Giulio Douhet

Astronomy & Space Science

The expanding role of the Guard and its close cooperation with the Air Force are Dr. Gross' themes, explaining the rise of the Guard to the prominence it plays in today's air operations. He pulls no punches in recounting the conflict between Guard and regular Air Force, or in explaining how each side maneuvered to safeguard its interests. However, the author also shows how common concerns and mutual dedication to the national defense overcame parochialism and led from cooperation to integration. The result was displayed for all the Air Force to see in the professionalism of Guard units in the 1960s mobilizations. Guard and regular Air Force had become vital to each other; in return for modern aircraft, a substantial peacetime mission, and upon mobilization integration into the wartime force, the Guard accepted de facto control by the regular Air Force. As Dr. Gross concludes, the concept of "state militia" was altered far beyond the changes wrought earlier in federal-state military relations. The Air Guard was ready for the "Total Force" policy of the 1970s. The dilemma of maintaining a reserve fully capable of fighting the air was solved. By the 1980s, the Air National Guard, at the same inheritors of a military tradition extending back before 1776, and users of the most advanced technologies of war, could prove that citizen-soldiers need not to be second to any airman in the world. Contents: Forged in Politics, 1943 - 1946 Struggle for Control, 1946 - 1950 Rejuvenation, 1950 - 1953 Integrating with the Active Force, 1953 - 1960 The Cold Warriors, 1961 - 1962 Vindication, 1963 - 1969 Epilogue: The Air National Guard and the Total Force

Prelude To Total Force: The Air National Guard 1943-1969 (The United States Air Force General Histories)

Gross, Charles Josep

The Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History, 1959-1987: A Collection of the First Thirty Harmon Lectures Given at the United States Air Force Academy (Special Studies) (1988-05-03)

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) B-36 Peacemaker -- 2.) B-45 Tornado -- 3.) B-47 Stratojet -- 4.) B-50 Stratofortress -- 5.) B-52 Stratofortress -- 6.) B-57 Canberra -- 7.) B-58 Hustler -- 8.) B/Rb-66 Destroyer -------- * APPENDIX I: World War II Bombers in the Postwar Period: -- a.) B-26 Invader -- b.) B-29 Superfortress -------- * APPENDIX II: Post-World War II Experimental and Prototype Bombers -- c.) Northrop XB-35 -- d.) Douglas XB-42 and XB-42A -- e.) Douglas XB-43 -- f.) Convair XB-46 -- g.) Martin XB-48 -- h.) Northrop YB-49 and YRB-49A -- i.) Martin XB-51 -- j.) Convair YB-60 -- k.) North American XB-70A -- l.) Rockwell International B-1A -------- * GLOSSARY -- * Select BIBLIOGRAPHY -- * INDEX

Post-World War II Bombers

Knaack, Marcelle Size

Since the introduction of aircraft to warfare, ground commanders have seen them as a powerful addition to their plans for dislodging and pursuing an enemy or for defending against assaults on friendly positions.  For military aviators, battlefield support is one of a range of possible uses of aircraft in attacking hostile forces.  Often, more profitable targets are in the enemy's war industries or in the opposing army's rear areas, where supplies and units are exposed on transportation nets leading to a fighting front.  This book examines the development of various doctrines on the application of aviation against battlefield targets.  Written by several well-known military and aviation historians, these analytical essays present examples of close air-support experience from World War I to the Arab-Israeli war of 1973.  Dr. Benjamin Franklin Cooling served as the Air Force project coordinator and general editor for this volume.  He received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania and began a career as a historian in the 1960s.  He has served in various research and supervisory positions with the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the U.S. Army Military History Institute, and the Office of Air Force History.  An authority on the history of the American Civil War, Dr. Cooling has published widely on military and naval topics of that era.  He has been executive director of the American Military Institute, a research fellow at the Naval War College, and a lecturer in military history at the U.S. Army War College.  In 1989, Dr. Cooling became Chief Historian of the Department of Energy.

Case Studies In the Development of Close Air Support (Special studies)

Cooling, Benjamin Franklin

Cooling, B. F.

Essentials of Educational Psychology

Buckingham, William

no. 100 Squadron RAAF and Beaufort Bomber Operations in the Pacific, Beaufort Bomber History, Bombers Austalia History, World War 1939-1945 - Aerial Ops., Australian History

Song of the Beauforts - No 100 Squadron RAAF and Beaufort Bomber Operations

Colin M. King

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