Contents Foreword v Preface vii A Weapon and an Idea 1 Europe in Flames 41 In Desperate Battle 97 Building Air Power 137 Defeating Italy and Germany 185 Victory over Japan 261 A New Age 307 Theater Maps 319 Air Forces Lineages 321 Selected Readings 337 Index 349 Photographic Essa American Aviation in World War I 4 Mason Patrick 8 The Billy Mitchell Era 11 American Aviation in the 1920s 14 Benjamin Foulois 19 Evolution of the Bomber 22 Organization Chart, 1935 25 Air Corps Tactical School 27 A President Faces a War 30 The Air Leaders 32 Pursuit and Attack Aviation 36 Hitler Ascendant 42 Luftwaffe Campaigns 46 Battle of Britain 50 Science and the War 54 Robert A. Lovett 58 Chief, Army Air Forces 66 Organization Chart, 1941 69 Observer Missions 73 A Plan for Aerial War 76 Argentia Conference 80 Large-Scale Maneuvers 82 Measures Short of War 84 Air Transport Command 87 The Threat from the East 90 Pearl Harbor Attack 98 The U-boat Menace 106 Philippines Defense 111 The Japanese Air Arm 116 Symbolic Strike at Japan 122 Coral Sea, Midway Actions 126 Eighth Air Force in Action 130 Production Miracles 144 American Classics 150 A Generation of Aircraft 154 Organization Chart, 1942 158 Black Eagles 164 Women Pilots 168 Pilot Training 171 Aviation Medicine 180 North African Diversion 190 Casablanca Conference 197 Over the Reich 202 The Disasters 206 End Game in North Africa 212 Spilling Hitler's Oil 216 Up the Boot 220 Big Week 226 The Luftwaffe Challenged 230 The Terror Weapons 233 Combined Bomber Offensive (map) 236 Shuttle Bombing 239 Preparing the Battlefield 242 Airlift 245 Maneuver War in Northwest France 247 Southern France 249 Market-Garden 251 Firestorm 256 Germany Quits 258 The Pacific Offensive Begins 264 The End of a Japanese Icon 266 Air War in the Southwest Pacific 268 China-Burma-India, Forgotten Theater 280 Marianas Operations 290 Home Islands Besieged 294 Cities on Fire 297 Closing the Sea Routes 299 Atomic Mission 304 Surveying the Results 314 Digitized by www.dtic.mil.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-348) and index

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