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Strike from the sky the history of battlefield air attack, 1910-1945

Title: Strike from the sky [electronic resource] : the history of battlefield air attack, 1910-1945 / Richard P. Hallion.
Author: Hallion, Richard.
Publication: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.

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1 online resource.

Uniform Title

Strike from the sky (Online)

Alternative Title

Strike from the sky (Online)

Subject

Close air support > History > 20th century
Air interdiction > History > 20th century

Note

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

The First World War. -- The military and the airplane -- Ground attack on the Western Front, 1917-1918 -- The Palestine Campaign of 1918 -- Great War air support in retrospect -- Small conflicts of the interwar years. -- Emergent ground attack doctrine and technology -- Small wars of the 1920s and 1930s -- Abyssinia, Spain, and war in Asia. -- The Abyssinian War -- The Spanish Civil War -- The Spanish legacy -- War in Asia -- The Second World War. -- The Blitzkrieg -- The genesis of Anglo-American air support: the British experience in the Western Desert -- The necessary interlude: doctrine and the American experience in the Pacific, Tunisian, and Italian campaigns -- A deadly efficiency: Anglo-American air support in Western Europe -- Battlefield air support in the East: the case of Kursk -- Epilogue: where we have come, where we are, where we are going.

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