The First Great Air Battle In History
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The First Great Air Battle In History
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Author : Great Britain. Air Ministry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The First Great Air Battle In History written by Great Britain. Air Ministry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940 categories.
The First Air War
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Author : Lee Kennett
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1999-07-30
The First Air War written by Lee Kennett and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-30 with History categories.
Historian Lee Kennett takes on the vital task of detailing the World War I aviator in this complete overview of the first air war, that Richard P. Hallion calls, "A welcome and long overdue addition to the literature of military aviation." "The whole subject of the first air war is like some imperfectly explored country: there are areas that have been crisscrossed by several generations of historians; there are regions where only writers of dissertations and abstruse monographs have ventured, and others yet that remain terra incognita," historian Lee Kennett tells his readers. There are very few books that explore military avition and its history to the fullest extent as Kennett has done in First Air War. The purpose of this book is to act as a complete overview on topics and histories that have previously gone unexplored. He tells of World War I fliers and their experiences "on all fronts and skillfully places them in proper context" (Edward M. Coffman, author of The Old Army). In considerate detail, Kennett tells the full story on how a few planes became the armies of the sky.
The First Great Air Battle In History The Battle Of Britain
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Author : Great Britain. Air Ministry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The First Great Air Battle In History The Battle Of Britain written by Great Britain. Air Ministry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940 categories.
The Great Air War
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Author : Aaron Norman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Great Air War written by Aaron Norman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.
The Battle Of Britain
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Author : Grande-Bretagne. Air Ministry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Battle Of Britain written by Grande-Bretagne. Air Ministry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with categories.
The First Air War
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Author : Terry C. Treadwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The First Air War written by Terry C. Treadwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
The Battle Of Britain The First Great Air Battle In History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
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Pioneers Of Aerial Combat
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Author : Michael Foley
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2013-07-16
Pioneers Of Aerial Combat written by Michael Foley and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with History categories.
When the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the early years of the twentieth century it sparked the imagination of those who wanted to fly, both in their country and around the world. In Britain, however, the spark wasn't strong enough to light a fire and it was in other parts of Europe, notably France, where flight began to develop seriously.Early pioneers of flight faced a high level of danger and many died in pursuit of fulfilling their dream. Although aircraft design had made incredible progress by the time of the outbreak of war, accidents still occurred on a regular basis. For some time, as many pilots died in accidents as they did in combat. This publication consolidates a range of stories, insights, and facts that, when combined, offer a vivid impression of events as they unfolded. The chaos stirred up during the First World War and the scramble to develop aircraft in response to the threat to homeland security is eloquently relayed, as are the battles that characterized this conflicted era. The reality of conflict gave aviation engineers and designers the opportunity to test their craft in the harshest of environments, pushing the benchmark ever higher in terms of what could be achieved. Sure to appeal to aviation enthusiasts and historians alike, this work offers the reader a full account of the developmental early days of flight.
A History Of Air Warfare
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Author : John Andreas Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2010
A History Of Air Warfare written by John Andreas Olsen and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Comprising sixteen essays penned by a global cadre of leading military experts, A History of Air Warfare chronologically examines the utility of air power from the First World War to the second Lebanon war, campaign by campaign. Each essay lays out the objectives, events, and key players of the conflict in question, reviews the role of air power in the strategic and operational contexts, and explores the interplay between the political framework and mil.
The Birth Of The Royal Air Force In World War I
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-10-13
The Birth Of The Royal Air Force In World War I written by Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-13 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading One of the most important breakthroughs in military technology associated with World War I, and certainly the one that continues to capture the public imagination, was the use of airplanes, which were a virtual novelty a decade before. While the war quickly ground to a halt in its first few months, the skies above the Western Front became increasingly busy. The great powers had already been acquiring aircraft for potential uses, but given that aerial warfare had never been a major component of any conflict, it's understandable that few on either side had any idea what the planes were capable of doing. Furthermore, at the start of the war, all sides' aircraft were ill-equipped for combat mostly because the idea that planes might somehow fight was still a novel one, and the adaptations had not yet been developed that would allow the aerial battles later in the war. As a result, aircraft were used almost entirely for reconnaissance early on, allowing generals to gain unprecedented levels of information about enemy movements. Such intelligence allowed the French to counter German movements in what became the First Battle of the Marne, ending Germany's hopes for victory through the Schlieffen plan. Similarly, in the east, German planes were vital in tracking, encircling and destroying Russian forces at Tannenberg. Some armies, such as the French, saw air intelligence as a strategic matter, with aircraft capable mainly of identifying enemy forces before battle and contributing to advanced preparations. The Germans, on the other hand, believed that aircraft could provide tactical information once battle had commenced. Pilots such as Oswald Boelcke, Germany's first great aerial officer, would fly over enemy positions in two-seat aircraft with a spotter in the back, identifying Allied positions and using colored lights to direct the fire of artillery on the ground. Of course, spotting took on great importance because of the growing range and power of artillery. Much of the fire from the great guns was aimed indirectly since the gunners could not see their targets and thus relied on intelligence from others to direct them. Maps of enemy-held territory were often woefully inadequate to start with, and with the need to know where moving enemy formations were positioned, the business gained an added complexity, but aircraft could cut through this by providing up-to-date intelligence on enemy positions and sending it back to the gun batteries which were lobbing shells over their own front lines. The Royal Air Force (RAF), Britain's legendary air arm, was born in the skies above the First World War. The British had previously used balloons for spotting and reconnaissance for decades, and in the years leading up to the war, planes started seeing military use. They mostly provided reconnaissance, though experiments were made in using them offensively. During the Boer War of 1899-1902, the British Army used the crews of helium-filled balloons to plot and help target artillery fire. But these were small, tentative steps. The first patent to fit a machine gun to a plane, taken out in 1910, had not yet led to active fighting vehicles, and there was no doctrine, no tactics, and no combat between massed air fleets. That changed during World War I, as the skies above the Western Front became the crucible in which the preceding fragments of aerial warfare were smelted in the white hot heat of war. For the British, this meant the creation of a large and unified flying force which by 1918 would become the RAF. The Birth of the Royal Air Force in World War I: The History and Legacy of British Air Power during the Great War examines the creation and evolution of the RAF over the course of World War I.