Beyond the Wild Blue (2nd edition): A History of the U.S. Air Force, 1947-2007Macmillan, 2007/06/26 - 576 ページ From the most important leaders and the most courageous victories to the earliest machines of flight and the most advanced Stealth technology, Walter J. Boyne's Beyond the Wild Blue presents a fascinating look at 50 turbulent years of Air Force history. |
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... Combat Command; General Richard E. Hawley, former Commander of the Air Combat Command; General Howard M. Estes III, Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command, United States Space Command, and Air Force Space Command ...
... combat necessities. He overcame each of these difficulties, sometimes by personal intervention, as when he personally saw to it that the vast civilian pilot training scheme was established, sometimes by motivation, as when he induced ...
... combat, and in the pell-mell postwar reduction in the size of the armed forces, he reverted to the rank of captain in 1920. Arnold's hallmark of moral courage was put into play on Mitchell's behalf in 1925, when he stoutly defended the ...
... combat, and these were dispersed around the world. Most telling was the drop in combat-ready groups. On August 15, 1945, there had been 218 AAF groups of all types, most of them ready to fight. By December 1946, sixteen months later ...
... combat career in the Pacific. And it might have been a natural pique; he was senior to Spaatz, but of course had not enjoyed Spaatz's long and close relationship with Arnold. Nonetheless, Kenney would have had to have been more than ...
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19531961 | 99 |
5 The many facets of war | 145 |
four major commands | 193 |
7 Change after vietnam | 225 |
8 Leadership doctrine and technology after vietnam | 253 |
11 Terror and response | 349 |
12 Assessing problems and facing challenges | 367 |
Appendix one | 391 |
Appendix two | 395 |
Appendix three | 399 |
Appendix four | 425 |
Bibliography | 433 |
A chronology of aerospace power since 1903 | 439 |