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Winged shield, winged sword : a history of the United States Air Force

Contents Foreword v Preface vii Part I: The Early and Interwar Years, 1907-1939 Chapter 1 The Roots of U.S. Military Aviation 3 Alfred F. Hurley and William C. Heimdakl Chapter 2 The Air Service in the Great War 35 Daniel R. Mortensen Chapter 3 From Air Service to Air Corps: The Era of Billy Mitchell 71 John F. Shiner Chapter 4 The Coming of the GHQ Air Force, 1925-1935 101 John F Shiner Chapter 5 The Heyday of the GHQ Air Force, 1935-1939 135 John F Shiner Part II: World War II, 1939-1945 Chapter 6 Reaction to the War in Europe 165 Bernard C Nalty Chapter 7 The Army Air Forces in Desperate Battle, 1941-1942 201 Bernard C Nalty Chapters Building Air Power 231 George M. Watson, Jr. Chapter 9 The Defeat of Italyand Germany 269 Bernard C. Nalty Chapter 10 Victory over Japan 327 Bernard C. Nalty Part III: Building the Air Force, 1945-1950 Chapter 11 The Quest For Independence Herman S. Wouk Chapter 12 Framing Air Force Missions 399 Warren A. Trest and George M. Watson, Jr. Notes 437 Selected Readings 443 Authors 481 Photographs 485 Index 491 Digitized by http://www.afhso.af.mil/ · Issued in a box · Includes bibliographical references and index · v. 1. 1907-1950 -- v. 2. 1950-1997 · Mod

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