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The U.S. Army Air Forces In World War II

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With Courage: The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II (General Histories)
June 1995, Air Force History & Museums Program
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With courage: the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II
1994, Air Force History & Museums Program
in English
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1994, Air Force History & Museums Program
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Table of Contents

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

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Washington, D.C., USA

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D790 .N32 1994, D790.N32 1994

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OL25908585M
Internet Archive
WithCourage
ISBN 10
0160363969
LCCN
94004716
OCLC/WorldCat
29951838

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