Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919-1939; General Histories
Washington, D.C. United States Air Force, Office of Air Force History, 1987. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxxiii, [1], 626 pages. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. DJ has some wear, tears and soiling. Paperclip imprint on fep and title page. Includes Foreword, A Personal Note, Acknowledgments, and an Introduction. Part 1 covers the Air Service from 1919-1926; Part 2 covers the Air Corps from 1926-1933; Part 3 covers GHQ Air Corps from 1926-1933; Part 3 covers GHQ Air Force from 1933-1939. Also contains information on GHQ Air Force Headquarters, Airmail, GHQ Air Force; Building an Air Force, crew Training; Operations; Mobilization; and Summing Up. Also contains Appendices on U.S. Army Aviation, Principal Facilities; U.S. Army Aviation Field Forces; Cost of U.S. Army Aviation, and Pictures of Aircraft, as well as Notes, Glossary, Bibliographic Note, and Index, as well as 98 photographs, and 20 charts and maps. In the years between the two world wars, American military air power grew from an embryonic service into an instrument of true strategic potential. This book examines in fascinating detail the technological development that advanced the science of military aeronautics through these twenty years. The author focuses directly on the Army fliers who risked their lives and flew their aircraft ever further, higher, and faster. This is the story of men, equipment, and the national politics that influenced the formative years of today's Air Force and the theories of warfare that affected its employment in battle. It is a tribute to those who dedicated their lives to proving a concept and making reality of a dream. Historians generally agree that the birth of American air power occurred in the two decades between the world wars, when airmen in the U. S. Army and Navy forged the aircraft, the organization, the cadre of leadership, and the doctrines that formed a foundation for the country to win the air war in World War II. Nearly every scholarly study of this era focuses on these developments, or upon the aircraft of the period; very few works describe precisely what the flyers were doing and how they overcame the difficulties they faced in creating air forces. In this detailed, comprehensive volume, Dr. Maurer Maurer, retired senior historian of the United States Air Force Historical Research Center, fills this void for land-based aviation. Maurer Maurer received his B.S. from Miami University, Ohio, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He joined the U.S. Air Force Historical Program in 1950. While employed in the historical office of the Air Materiel Command from 1950 to 1955, he taught during his off duty hours at Wittenberg College in Ohio. From 1955 until his retirement in 1983, Dr. Maurer worked in the United States Air Force Historical Research Center, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The value of this book is twofold: the wealth of detail Dr. Maurer provides about the scope, structure, and activities of interwar Army aviation; and the comprehensive portrait that emerges of a military service struggling with limited resources to develop a new weapon of tremendous destructive potential. As such, the book fills a gap in the literature and contributes to knowledge about the history of the Army air arm. Condition: Very good / Good.
Keywords: Army Aviation, Flight Training, Tactical Training, Air Service, Civil Affairs, Coastal Defense, Landing Fields, Weather Service, Parachutes, Air Corps, Pilots, Airmail, Bombers, Pursuit, Inceptor, Fighters, Attack Aircraft, Transports, Navigators, Bo
ISBN: 0912799382
[Book #82334]
Price: $100.00