Strike from the sky
Hallion, Richard.
Strike from the sky the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / [electronic resource] : Strike from the sky : the history of battlefield air attack, 1910-1945 Richard P. Hallion. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010. - xx, 323 p. : ill.
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Close air support--History.
Air interdiction--History.
Electronic books.
UG700 / .H35 2010eb
358.4/14209041
Strike from the sky the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / [electronic resource] : Strike from the sky : the history of battlefield air attack, 1910-1945 Richard P. Hallion. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010. - xx, 323 p. : ill.
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Close air support--History.
Air interdiction--History.
Electronic books.
UG700 / .H35 2010eb
358.4/14209041