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9781508815945 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 11, 2015, cover price $14.95
Product Description: Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of Pacific forces in World War II, viewed the Battle of the Bismarck Sea as a disaster for the Japanese and a triumph for the Allies. In that great air-sea confrontation, U.S. and Australian air forces proved that air power could be decisive in preventing the resupply of ground troops by sea...read more
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9781508801801 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Gen.
Product Description: This volume, the latest published by the Office of Air Force History in the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia series, looks at the Air Force’s support of the ground war in South Vietnam between 1965 and early 1968. The book covers the period from the time when the United States began moving from an advisory role into one of active involvement to just before the time when the United States gradually began disengaging from the war...read more
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9781508802693 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This volume, the latest published by the Office of Air Force History in the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia series, looks at the Air Force’s support of the ground war in South Vietnam between 1965 and early 1968.
Product Description: This is the second in a series of interim reports published by Headquarters, Army Air Forces. The original manuscript was prepared by Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, Eighth Air Force, on the basis of official records and firsthand observation...read more
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9781508790761 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This is the second in a series of interim reports published by Headquarters, Army Air Forces.
Product Description: The History of the United States Air Force is more than a tribute to the men and women responsible for the advancement of military aviation. Individual heroes do emerge, air battles are recounted, and record-setting flights described, but the book also deals with the ideas and decisions that have made the U...read more
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9781508802075 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The History of the United States Air Force is more than a tribute to the men and women responsible for the advancement of military aviation.
Product Description: The History of the United States Air Force is more than a tribute to the men and women responsible for the advancement of military aviation. Individual heroes do emerge, air battles are recounted, and record-setting flights described, but the book also deals with the ideas and decisions that have made the U...read more
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9781508803362 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The History of the United States Air Force is more than a tribute to the men and women responsible for the advancement of military aviation.
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9781508802518 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $12.95
Product Description: THIS MONOGRAPH, written by Mrs. Juliette A. Hennessy of the USAF Historical Division, recounts the development of aviation in the United States Army from April 1861, when the Army first became interested in balloons as a means of observation, to April 1917, when America entered World War I...read more
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9781508803027 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 10, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: THIS MONOGRAPH, written by Mrs.
Product Description: In December 1918 Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), directed his newly appointed Assistant Chief of Staff, Col. Edgar S. Gorrell, to prepare a history and final report on U.S. air activities in Europe during World War I...read more
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9781508745341 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 6, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In December 1918 Maj.
9781507719725 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 26, 2015, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In December 1918 Maj.
Product Description: Following the Armistice in 1918, Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, directed that a record be made of lessons learned during the war. This information, he believed, was needed for planning the Air Service of the future...read more
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9781508745488 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 6, 2015, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Following the Armistice in 1918, Maj.
Product Description: In our continuing effort to document the use of airpower in Southeast Asia, we present in this volume two major contributions to the "airpower story." Monograph 4, "The Vietnamese Air Force, 1951-1975, An Analysis of its Role in Combat," was written by General William W...read more
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9781508745617 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 6, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In our continuing effort to document the use of airpower in Southeast Asia, we present in this volume two major contributions to the "airpower story.
Product Description: One of the highest compliments a USAF research and engineering officer can receive on his work is that it met the standards of “the Arnold-von Karman tradition.” This allusion epitomizes objectivity of inquiry and thoroughness and excellence of performance...read more
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9781508729785 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 5, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: One of the highest compliments a USAF research and engineering officer can receive on his work is that it met the standards of “the Arnold-von Karman tradition.
Product Description: In our continuing desire to bring to the reader an in-depth look at the use of airpower in Southeast Asia, we present in this volume a truly monumental effort at recounting the myriad of widely separate but not unrelated events and operations that took place during the spring invasion of 1972...read more
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9781508712893 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 5, 2015, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In our continuing desire to bring to the reader an in-depth look at the use of airpower in Southeast Asia, we present in this volume a truly monumental effort at recounting the myriad of widely separate but not unrelated events and operations that took place during the spring invasion of 1972.
9781507720233 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 26, 2015, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In our continuing desire to bring to the reader an in-depth look at the use of airpower in Southeast Asia, we present in this volume a truly monumental effort at recounting the myriad of widely separate but not unrelated events and operations that took place during the Spring Invasion of 1972.
Product Description: PART 2 of 2 Medical Support of the Army Air Forces In World War II has been prepared to fill a gap in the medical history of that period. Its purpose is to present a unified narrative of the total performance of the AAF medical service in support of the Air Forces combat mission...read more
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9781508686293 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 5, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: PART 2 of 2 Medical Support of the Army Air Forces In World War II has been prepared to fill a gap in the medical history of that period.
9781508686286 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: PART 1 of 2 Medical Support of the Army Air Forces In World War II has been prepared to fill a gap in the medical history of that period.
Product Description: The primary focus of this work in on those privately printed unit and organizational histories produced outside the official channels of the armed services. Some official reports are included because they fall within the criteria set out below...read more
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9781508730026 | Exp rev edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 5, 2015), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The primary focus of this work in on those privately printed unit and organizational histories produced outside the official channels of the armed services.
Product Description: The Air Force's humanitarian operations received wide attention during the 1990s, as they will for years to come. They are part of a well-established tradition dating back three-quarters of a century to the early days of military flight...read more
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9781508729389 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 5, 2015, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Air Force's humanitarian operations received wide attention during the 1990s, as they will for years to come.
Product Description: Historians have written extensively about the United States Air Force as an instrument of war, focusing on aerial combat, bombing, strafing, and the transportation of troops and weapons. They have written less about the role of the USAF in supporting disaster relief operations, in helping emerging nations meet the needs of their citizens, and in feeding the hungry anywhere in the world— missions which are cumulatively known as humanitarian airlift...read more
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9781508729570 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 5, 2015, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Historians have written extensively about the United States Air Force as an instrument of war, focusing on aerial combat, bombing, strafing, and the transportation of troops and weapons.
Product Description: The theme of the first Military History Symposium, held at the United States Air Force Academy on 4-5 May 1967, was âCurrent Concepts in Military History.â The papers delivered at the second, on 2-3 May 1968, together with the subsequent comments of a number of officers who had participated in the events discussed, were published by the Academy in 1969 as Command and Commanders in Modern Warfare...read more
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9781508660705 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 4, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The theme of the first Military History Symposium, held at the United States Air Force Academy on 4-5 May 1967, was âCurrent Concepts in Military History.
Product Description: Tactical airlift matured in Vietnam. American airlift personnel worked with the French prior to their pull-out in the mid-1950s, and started assisting South Vietnamese in the years just prior to the massive American involvement. Tactics were developed, and then changed constantly in an effort to adapt to current military situations...read more
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9781508698784 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 4, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Tactical airlift matured in Vietnam.
9781508698777 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Tactical airlift matured in Vietnam.
Product Description: This study surveys the changes in the size and functions of Headquarters United States Air Force (USAF) since its inception in September 1947. It examines both the external and internal factors that influenced the Headquarters USAF organization...read more
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9781508697763 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This study surveys the changes in the size and functions of Headquarters United States Air Force (USAF) since its inception in September 1947.
Product Description: One of the major lessons of World War II was the need for the military services, both in the United States and elsewhere, to work together in mutually supporting ways to defeat an enemy. Changing technology and the worldwide character of the war altered the traditional boundaries between land and sea warfare, and the new elements of air power and atomic weapons even further called into question the traditional roles and missions of the armed services...read more
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9781508712688 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: One of the major lessons of World War II was the need for the military services, both in the United States and elsewhere, to work together in mutually supporting ways to defeat an enemy.
Product Description: The Southeast Asia Monograph Series is designed and dedicated to telling the story of USAF's participation in the Vietnam War. This monograph, the sixth in the Series, adds another exciting chapter to our continuing effort to bring forth and highlight the dedication, courage, and professionalism of the U...read more
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9781508713005 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The Southeast Asia Monograph Series is designed and dedicated to telling the story of USAF's participation in the Vietnam War.
9781508713012 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The Southeast Asia Monograph Series is designed and dedicated to telling the story of USAF's participation in the Vietnam War.
Product Description: Early on the morning of January 17, 1991, the Persian Gulf War began. It consisted of massive allied air strikes on Iraq and Iraqi targets in Kuwait. The United States Air Force spearheaded the air offensive and furnished the bulk of the attacking aircraft...read more
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9781508697572 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Early on the morning of January 17, 1991, the Persian Gulf War began.
Product Description: THIS slender volume has value for both the general reader and the aviation specialist. For the latter there are lessons regarding command and control and combined-unit operations that need to be learned to achieve battlefield success...read more
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9781508701880 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: THIS slender volume has value for both the general reader and the aviation specialist.
Product Description: This is the second in a series of research studiesâhistorical works that were not published for various reasons. Yet, the material contained therein was deemed to be of enduring value to Air Force members and scholars. These works were minimally edited and printed in a limited edition to reach a small audience that may find them useful...read more
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9781508697909 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is the second in a series of research studiesâhistorical works that were not published for various reasons.
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