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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... flown with Claire Chennault's aerobatic demonstration team as one of the daring young men on “the Flying Trapeze,” the ancestors of the famous Thunderbirds. Promoted to the rank of brigadier general at thirty-seven, Kuter was Commanding ...
... flown with Spaatz in the 1927 flight of the Question Mark, and as the popular leader of the IX Tactical Air Command had been ranked by General Omar Bradley as the fourth most capable American general in the European theater. Here the ...
... flown 189,963 flights, in 586,827 hours of flying time, for a total distance of 92,061,863 miles—about the distance to the sun. The $200 million effort had not been without human cost—twelve crashes had claimed thirty-one American lives ...
... flown by FEAF during the Korean War, but each one, whether flown by a North American F-86 Sabre in a thrilling dogfight over the Yalu or by an aging Curtiss C-46 Commando limping in to deliver vital cargo to trapped troops, represents a ...
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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 |