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Presents a bibliography of resources on American airman Henry Harley Arnold (1886-1950), also called Hap, compiled by Diana Simpson for the Air University Library at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. Includes Internet resources, books, documents, periodicals, and videos.

Author : PISANO DOMINICK A
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2001-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1560989181

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Launched in 1939, the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was one of the largest government-sponsored vocational education programs of its time. In To Fill the Skies with Pilots, Dominick A. Pisano explores the successes and failures of the program, from its conception as a hybrid civilian-military mandate in peacetime, through the war years, and into the immediate postwar period. As originally conceived, the CPTP would serve both war-preparedness goals and New Deal economic ends. Using the facilities of colleges, universities, and commercial flying schools, the CPTP was designed to provide a pool of civilian pilots for military service in the event of war. The program also sought to give an economic boost to the light-plane industry and the network of small airports and support services associated with civilian aviation. As Pisano demonstrates, the CPTP's multiple objectives ultimately contributed to its demise. Although the program did train tens of thousands of pilots who later flew during the war (mostly in noncombat missions), military leaders faulted the project for not being more in line with specific recruitment and training needs. After attempting to adjust to these needs, the CPTP then faced a difficult and ultimately unsuccessful transition back to civilian purposes in the postwar era. By charting the history of the CPTP, Pisano sheds new light on the politics of aviation during these pivotal years as well as on civil-military relations and New Deal policy making.

Author : Vic Currierv
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1503547728

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America would be very different if William Harding Jackson (1901 1971) had not put his indelible stamp on the US government as OSS / War Department chief of secret intelligence in World War II Europe, cofounder of todays Central Intelligence Agency, and his work as Eisenhowers national security adviser. During the most dangerous times in our history and for decades beyond his death, there is no other American who influenced so many sensitive, top-secret national security matters more than Jackson. When Bill Jackson was in the room, everyone paid attention; and for a time in our history, three US presidents saw to itpersonally.

Author : National Air and Space Museum
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 1991-12-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Featuring ninety-three popular aircraft from the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, this revised edition contains eight new additions. Each entry includes several photographs, an article briefly detailing its history, and data on the plane's wingspan, length, height, weight, and engine type.

Author : SANDLER STANLEY
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 1998-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560989172

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"Sandler does a fine job of emphasizing the unjustness of the segregation policy as well as the excellence of the men who flew in segregated skies. He provides a good look at this lesser known aspect of (World War II).--"Retired Officer". 38 photos.

Author : ARBON L
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 1998-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560988373

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Tracing the history and achievements of enlisted pilots from 1912, when a Corporal volunteered for pilot training, through 1942, They Also Flew records the personal sagas of men determined to serve their country in the air.

Author : Chester G. Hearn
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 9781610606943

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From its beginnings in 1907 as the Aeronautical Division of U.S. Armys Signal Corps, which consisted of one officer and two enlisted men, the United States Air Force has grown to become the foremost aerial armed force in the world. Although they had to fly French and British planes as the fledgling army aeronautical bureaucracy failed to procure any combat-worthy American aircraft, which arguably did not exist, American aviators performed valiantly in World War I with intrepid pilots of the such as Eddie Rickenbacker and Frank Luke leading the way. Between the wars, all of aviation, commercial and military around the world grew by leaps and bounds as the numbers of aircraft in service and their capabilities tremendously increased. Although the Army Air Corps, as it was known at the time, was no better prepared for World War II than the rest of the army, it had developed a highly professional corps of experienced officers who would be able to take advantage of the latest American aircraft technology such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and the P-51 Mustang. With the end of the war and the creation of an independent armed force in 1947, the United States Air Force leapt into the jet age with such icons as the F-86 Sabre and the remarkable B-52 Stratofortress, which "soldiers" on today more than fifty years after going into service in 1955 and with the youngest of the 744 plane production run being forty years old, having been built in 1962.Air Force covers the entire history of the U.S. Air Force and its development from its beginnings early in the last century to becoming the worlds largest, most powerful, and most versatile air-combat force. Special attention is paid to the air forces recent, post-Vietnam history, and an entire chapter is devoted to Americas air force of the future.