Research Catalog

Title

United States Army aviators' equipment, 1917/1945 / C.G. Sweeting.

Author

Sweeting, C. G.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

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Description

v, 341 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"Six decades after World War II, we know that the margin between Allied victory and defeat was narrower than many realized, but less well known are the technological developments that made victory possible. This book describes how American airmen became the best-outfitted aviators of the war, tracing the development of personal equipment used by U.S. air forces"--

Subject

• United States. Army Air Forces > History
• World War, 1914-1918 > Equipment and supplies
• World War, 1939-1945 > Equipment and supplies

Note

• Originally published: Combat flying equipment : U.S. Army aviators' personal equipment, 1917-1945 / C.G. Sweeting. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution, 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-328) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Human engineering -- Oxygen equipment -- Military parachutes -- Armor for aviators -- Anti-G garments and pressure suits -- Survival equipment -- Miscellaneous equipment -- Abbreviations.

ISBN

• 9780786497379 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786497378 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 9781476619460 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014049593

OCLC

898167604

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library