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100 1  Kane, Robert.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2015012889 
245 10 So Far From Home :|bRoyal Air Force and Free French Air 
       Force Flight Training at Maxwell and Gunter Fields during 
       World War II. 
264  1 Montgomery :|bNewSouth Books,|c2016. 
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520    During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (AAF) trained 
       over 21,000 aircrew members from 29 Allied countries. The 
       two largest programs, 79 percent of those trained, were 
       for Britain and France. The Royal Air Force (RAF), fully 
       engaged against the German Air Force by December 1940, was
       not able to train new aircrews. The British government 
       asked the United States to train new pilots until it could
       get its own flight training program underway. Lieutenant 
       General Henry "Hap" Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps, 
       authorized the training of RAF pilots at select airfields 
       in the southeast United States, including at Maxwell and 
       Gunter fields near Montgomery, Alabama. Between June 1941 
       and February 1943, when the RAF terminated what became 
       known as the Arnold Plan, 4,300 of more than 7,800 RAF 
       cadets sent to the United States completed the three-phase
       AAF flight training program. Within three months, some of 
       the same schools, including the phase 2 school at Gunter 
       Field, began training Free French Air Force flight cadets.
       By November 1945, when the US government terminated the 
       French training program, 2,100 French flight cadets out of
       the 4,100 who came to the United States had received their
       wings. This book tells for the first time the story of the
       RAF and Free French flight training programs in central 
       Alabama, covering the origins, the issues, and the 
       problems that occurred during the training programs, and 
       the results and lessons learned. 
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610 17 Great Britain.|bRoyal Air Force.|2fast|0https://
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647  7 World War|d(1939-1945)|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast
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648  7 1939-1945|2fast 
650  0 Aeronautics, Military|xStudy and teaching|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001377|zAlabama
       |zMaxwell Air Force Base.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations, American.|0https:
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650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations, British.|0https:/
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650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations, French.|0https://
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650  7 Aeronautics, Military|xStudy and teaching.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/798568 
651  0 Gunter Field (Ala.)|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       no2014165247|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh99005024 
651  0 Maxwell Air Force Base (Ala.)|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n81125967|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99005024 
651  7 Alabama|zMaxwell Air Force Base.|2fast|0https://
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655  4 Electronic books. 
655  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aKane, Robert.|tSo Far From Home : Royal 
       Air Force and Free French Air Force Flight Training at 
       Maxwell and Gunter Fields during World War II.|dMontgomery
       : NewSouth Books, ©2016 
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       db=nlebk&AN=1849900|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access 
       restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, 
       and staff. 
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       of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 
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