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Striking the hornets' nest : naval aviation and the origins of strategic bombing in World War I / Geoffrey L. Rossano, Thomas Wildenberg.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rossano, Geoffrey Louis, author.
- Wildenberg, Thomas, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Naval aviation--History--20th century.
- Naval aviation.
- Bombing, Aerial--History--20th century.
- Bombing, Aerial.
- Air power--History--20th century.
- Air power.
- Great Britain. Royal Naval Air Service--History.
- Great Britain.
- United States. Navy. Northern Bombing Group--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Striking the Hornets' Nest provides the first extensive analysis of the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy's most innovative aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world's first dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written about the Navy's aviation activities in World War I and even less on the NBG. Standard studies of strategic bombing tend to focus on developments in the Royal Air Force or the U.S. Army Air Service. This work concentrates on the origins of strategic bombing in World War I, and the influence this phenomenon had on the Navy's future use of
- Contents:
- Blazing the path: the Royal Naval Air Service and the beginnings of strategic bombing
- Crushing the hornets' nest
- Naval aviation enters the arena: April-December 1917
- The Dunkirk dilemma
- Bombardment aviation: America to the rescue
- The General Board speaks: January-March 1918
- Paris charts a different course: January-April 1918
- The great debate: March-May 1918
- Night bombers needed
- Putting the plan into motion: May-July 1918
- Training of personnel
- Capronis coveted: Army versus Navy in Italy
- Airbases and support facilities
- Send in the Marines
- Learning from the British: July-November 1918
- Operations against the enemy: the campaign begins
- Operations against the enemy: day bombing
- Bombing, bombing, and more bombing
- Lessons and legacies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61251-391-3
- OCLC:
- 951972319
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