LEADER 02625nam 2200541 a 450 001 9910817005403321 005 20230725040439.0 010 $a0-8173-8543-6 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046966 035 $a(EBL)835664 035 $a(OCoLC)772845379 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000593546 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11367351 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000593546 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10740238 035 $a(PQKB)11779310 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC835664 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9351 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL835664 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10527801 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046966 100 $a20100519e20101989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStrike from the sky $ethe history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 /$fRichard P. Hallion 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. 311 1 $a0-8173-5657-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aChronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in war, to the end of World War II. 606 $aClose air support$xHistory 606 $aAir interdiction$xHistory 615 0$aClose air support$xHistory. 615 0$aAir interdiction$xHistory. 676 $a358.4/14209041 700 $aHallion$b Richard$f1948-.$01254844 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817005403321 996 $aStrike from the sky$93973905 997 $aUNINA