Air Power: From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II : a History of the People, Ideas and Machines that Transformed War in the Century of FlightViking, 2003 - 518 من الصفحات Arguably no single human invention has transformed war more than the aeroplane. The potential of airpower to change the very nature - perhaps even the meaning - of combat was strikingly evident almost from the moment the Wright brothers first flew. showing how, during the course of the 20th century, it transformed warfare. Drawing on combat memoirs, government and industry archives, technical studies and museum collections, this text brings together a complete narrative history of war in the air, with the people, events, ideas and inventions that made it possible. |
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... targets in Germany could be struck only if they had been clearly identified by the aircrews ; if cloud obscured the target area the planes were to return with their bomb load . Now bomber crews were told exactly the opposite : in light ...
... targets in Germany could be struck only if they had been clearly identified by the aircrews ; if cloud obscured the target area the planes were to return with their bomb load . Now bomber crews were told exactly the opposite : in light ...
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... targets could prove valuable , even when the major effects one was seeking to achieve were on the battlefield . Destroying targets such as television transmitters or air- defense command posts or chemical weapons storage sites could ...
... targets could prove valuable , even when the major effects one was seeking to achieve were on the battlefield . Destroying targets such as television transmitters or air- defense command posts or chemical weapons storage sites could ...
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... targets in Serbia . There were some strategic targets in heavily defended Belgrade that only the B - 2 could strike . But the planes ' employment spoke more about finding a new role for a hugely expensive Cold War - era investment than ...
... targets in Serbia . There were some strategic targets in heavily defended Belgrade that only the B - 2 could strike . But the planes ' employment spoke more about finding a new role for a hugely expensive Cold War - era investment than ...
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Scientists and empiricists Invading Frenchmen and phantom airships | 52 |
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