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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... records of help from Lieutenant Colonel K. C. McClain, Air Force General Officer Matters Office, Captain Sam McNiel, Air Force Office of Public Affairs, Major Roger L. Overture, Air Force Institute of Technology; Master Sergeant ...
... records and won the first MacKay Trophy ever awarded with an unprecedented reconnaissance flight on a triangular course from College Park to Washington Barracks, D.C., then to Fort Myer, Virginia, and back to College Park. The flight ...
... -10 bombers in a record round-trip flight from Washington D.C. to Fairbanks, Alaska, receiving his second McKay Trophy for the achievement. In February 1935, already identified as “bomber man,” he received 13 Beyond the Wild Blue Ý.
... record. A flier since 1922, he had commanded the USS Wasp until her loss in 1942; he then became a leader in planning the naval campaigns that ran from the Carolines to Okinawa. Sherman was considered the best naval strategist in the ...
... record-setting Jimmy Doolittle, with a growing family, a doctorate in engineering, and a celebrated flying career, found himself locked in place as a first lieutenant for eleven years, with no assurance of promotion in the near future ...
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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 |