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Strike from the sky : the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945
- Title
- Strike from the sky : the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / Richard P. Hallion.
- Author
- Hallion, Richard.
- Publication
- Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1989.
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Details
- Description
- xx, 323 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Smithsonian history of aviation series
- Uniform Title
- Smithsonian history of aviation series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. Small conflcits of the interwar years: Emergent ground-attack doctrine and technology ; Small wars of the 1920s and 1930s -- pt. 3. Abyssinia, Spain, and war in Asia: The Abyssinian War ; The Spanish Civil War ; The Spanish legacy ; War in Asia -- pt. 4. 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 ; Battlefied air support in the East : the case of Kursk -- Epilogue: Where we have come, where we are, where we are going.
- ISBN
- 0874744520
- 9780874744521
- LCCN
- 89032009
- OCLC
- ocm19590167
- 19590167
- SCSB-1734623
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library