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1 online resource (392 pages) |
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Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The First World War; 1. The Military and the Airplane; The Birth of Military Aviation, 1903-1914; The Nature of Conflict in the Great War; The Air War and Aviation Technology; 2. Ground Attack on the Western Front, 1917-1918; From the Somme to Cambrai; The 1918 Offensive; St. Mihiel; 3. The Palestine Campaign of 1918; Setting the Stage; Wadi el Far'a; 4. Great War Air Support in Retrospect; Aircraft and Operations; Identification and Communications; Aircraft and Tanks; Part Two: Small Conflicts of the Interwar Years. |
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5. Emergent Ground-Attack Doctrine and TechnologyAttack Aircraft Development in the Interwar Years; Ground-Attack Aviation and Military Thought; 6. Small Wars of the 1920s and 1930s; The Russo-Polish War of 1920; The British "Air Control" Experience; The Rif War in Morocco; The Sandino War in Nicaragua; Part Three: Abyssinia, Spain, and War in Asia; 7. The Abyssinian War; Background to War; The Air Campaign; 8. The Spanish Civil War; Myths, Realities, and the Nature of the Air War; The Beginnings of Spanish Air Support; The Battle of Guadalajara. |
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The Maturation of Spanish Air Support: Bilbao, Brunete, Teruel, and the Ebro9. The Spanish Legacy; Lessons Read and Misread; France; Germany; The Soviet Union; 10. War in Asia; The Sino-Japanese War; The Nomonhan Incident; Part Four: The Second World War; 11. The Blitzkrieg; The Invasion of Poland; The Battle for France; The Allied Riposte; The Lessons of Blitzkrieg; 12. The Genesis of Anglo-American Air Support: The British Experience in the Western Desert; From Peace to War; Western Desert Beginnings; The Crusader Experience; From Crusader to El Alamein. |
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13. The Necessary Interlude: Doctrine and the American Experience in the Pacific, Tunisian, and Italian CampaignsThe Pacific Experience: Guadalcanal, New Guinea, and Bougainville; Kasserine and Its Aftermath; FM 100-20: The AAF's "Declaration of Independence"; The Aftermath of Tunisia and FM 100-20; Sicily ... ; ... and Italy; 14. A Deadly Efficiency: Anglo-American Air Support in Western Europe; Preparations for Overlord and the Götterdammerung of the Luftwaffe; The Allied Tactical Air Forces; The Invasion and the Structure of Air Support; Air Pro and Contra Armor. |
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Allied Air over the BattlefieldCobra: The Heavy Bomber in Air Support; TacAir Omnipotent: Mortain and the Falaise-Argentan Pocket; Anglo-American Tactical Air Power: A Retrospective View; 15. Battlefield Air Support in the East: The Case of Kursk; The Nazi Blitz and Soviet Reaction; Restructuring and Rebuilding the Soviet Army Air Force; German Schlachtflugzeug in the East; Setting the Stage for Kursk: Soviet Air Support Developments, 1941-1943; Preparations for Citadel; The Battle of Kursk; Aftermath; Epilogue: Where We Have Come, Where We Are, Where We Are Going; Glossary; Source Notes. |
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Selected Bibliography. |
| Summary |
Chronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in war, to the end of World War II. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Close air support -- History.
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Close air support. |
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History. |
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Air interdiction -- History.
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Air interdiction. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Mason, R. A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hallion, Richard P. Strike From the Sky : The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1910-1945. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010 9780817356576 |
| ISBN |
9780817385439 (electronic book) |
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0817385436 (electronic book) |
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9780817356576 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0817356576 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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