02674nam 2200553 a 450 991046424660332120200520144314.00-8173-8543-6(CKB)3170000000046966(EBL)835664(OCoLC)772845379(SSID)ssj0000593546(PQKBManifestationID)11367351(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000593546(PQKBWorkID)10740238(PQKB)11779310(MiAaPQ)EBC835664(MdBmJHUP)muse9351(Au-PeEL)EBL835664(CaPaEBR)ebr10527801(EXLCZ)99317000000004696620100519e20101989 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrStrike from the sky[electronic resource] the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 /Richard P. HallionTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20101 online resource (392 p.)Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.0-8173-5657-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Chronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in war, to the end of World War II.Close air supportHistoryAir interdictionHistoryElectronic books.Close air supportHistory.Air interdictionHistory.358.4/14209041Hallion Richard1044672MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464246603321Strike from the sky2475628UNINA