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Record Nr.

UNINA9910715083803321

Autore

Blazich Frank A., Jr.

Titolo

"An honorable place in American air power" : Civil Air Patrol coastal patrol operations, 1942-1943 / / Frank A. Blazich, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : , : Air University Press, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (1 color)

Disciplina

358.41450973

Soggetti

Air defenses - United States - History

Civil defense - United States - History

Anti-submarine warfare - United States - History

World War, 1939-1945 - United States

Air defenses

Anti-submarine warfare

Civil defense

History

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Origins of the Civil Air Patrol -- 3. Paukenschlag and the CAP Experiment -- 4. Learning and expansion -- 5. From Main to Mexico -- 6. Challenges and transitions -- 7. Past reflections and future possibilities.

Sommario/riassunto

"Military historian and Civil Air Patrol (CAP) member Frank A. Blazich Jr. collects oral and written histories of the CAP's short-lived--but influential--coastal air patrol operations of World War II and expands it in a scholarly monograph that cements the legacy of this vital civil-military cooperative effort"--