Strike from the sky : the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / Richard P. Hallion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hallion, Richard, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Close air support--History.

Close air support.

Air interdiction--History.

Air interdiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in war, to the end of World War II.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8543-6

OCLC:

772845379