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  • Evolution of Command and Control Doctrine for Close Air Support
    Office of Air Force History / Riley B. Sutherland / United States Air Force
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    24,14 €

  • Air Force Roles and Mission
    U. S. Office of Air Force History / USOffice of Air Force History / Warren A. Trest / Warren aTrest
    Originally published in 1988. From the foreword: 'The twentieth century witnessed the emergence of three-dimensionality in war: surface forces now became prey for attackers operating above and below the earth and its oceans. The aerial weapon, prophesied for centuries, became a reality, as did air power projection forces. This insightful book by Warren A. Trest traces the doctr...
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    24,48 €

  • The Advisory Years to 1965 (the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia Series)
    Martin Blumenson / Office of Air Force History / Robert F. Futrell / Robert FFutrell
    Tells the story of the Air Force’s involvement in the region from the end of the second World War until the major infusion of American troops into Vietnam in 1965. During these years, and most noticeably after 1961 , the Air Force’s principal role in Southeast Asia was to advise the Vietnamese Air Force in its struggle against insurgents seeking the collapse of the Saigon gover...
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    37,23 €

  • Tactical Airlift (the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia)
    Office of Air Force History / Roy L. Bowers / Roy LBowers
    Originally published in 1983. Illustrated with many maps and photographs. Presents the United States Air Force’s use of one form of air power, tactical airlift aviation, in the changing limited warfare situation in Vietnam. Covers the period from the decision of President Truman to assist the French in 1950 to the end of United States involvement in 1975. ...
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    47,87 €

  • Development and Employment of Fixed-Wing Gunships 1962-1972
    Jack S. Ballard / Jack SBallard / Office of Air Force History
    Originally issued in 1981 by the U.S. Office of Air Force History. Profusely illustrated with maps, charts and photographs throughout. An innovative adaptation of existing aircraft, the gunship was used to interdict enemy reinforcements and protect friendly villages, bases, and forces, especially at night. Ballard’s book describes how the fixed-wing gunship evolved from a modif...
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    42,74 €

  • The Air Force in Southeast Asia
    Ralph A. Rowley / Ralph ARowley / Robert N. Ginsburgh / Robert NGinsburgh / U.S. Office of Air Force History / U.SOffice of Air Force History
    Recently declassified study written in January 1972. Describes the many problems which faced the first air controllers after their arrival in South Vietnam in early 1962. He discusses their efforts to overcome the language barrier and help train Vietnamese Air Force personnel, their role in establishing a centralized air control system, and the tactics and techniques they devel...
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    34,31 €

  • The Air Force in Southeast Asia
    E H Hartsook / U.S. Office of Air Force History / U.SOffice of Air Force History
    First published in 1972, this historical report reviews plans and policies affecting the air war in Southeast Asia, as they were discussed, reviewed, and ordered implemented in 1970 by the White House, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Air Force. In this study, the author discusses the Air Force’s role in supporting the President’s decis...
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    34,02 €

  • The Air Force in Southeast Asia
    U.S. Office of Air Force History / U.SOffice of Air Force History / William H. Greenhalgh / William HGreenhalgh
    Declassified study from 1979. From the foreword: 'It is impossible to separate an aircraft from its pilots and support personnel since they constitute a team. Nor is it possible to describe that team without considering the organizational and operational developments which affected the team’s performance. This volume is a narrative of the birth and growth of the RF-IOIC Voodoo,...
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    34,60 €

  • The Air Force in Southeast Asia
    U.S. Office of Air Force History / U.SOffice of Air Force History / Victor B. Anthony / Victor BAnthony
    Declassified study from March 1973. From the foreword: 'The author, a Master Navigator, was formerly a member of the Air Force Academy history faculty. He also served a tour of duty in the Directorate of Operations, Headquarters, 7/13 Air Force, at Udorn, Thailand, and is well qualified to tell the story of nearly a decade of Air Force night operations in Southeast Asia. During...
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    42,30 €

  • The Air Force in Southeast Asia
    E H Hartsook / Office of Air Force History / United States Air Force
    Originally published in 1980 and now declassified, this is the seventeenth monograph dealing with USAF plans, policies, and operations in Southeast Asia. It treats USAF involvement from 1973 up to the defeat of South Vietnam at the end of April 1975. Actual USAF operational involvement spanned only the first seven and a half months of 1973 and the final days of evacuation in 19...
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    34,70 €

  • The Air Force in Southeast Asia
    Richard Pfau / U.S. Office of Air Force History / U.SOffice of Air Force History / William H. Greenhalgh / William HGreenhalgh
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    34,12 €

  • The Air Force in Southeast Asia
    E H Hartsook / U.S. Office of Air Force History / U.SOffice of Air Force History
    This recently declassified study from 1978 details on Air Force participation-in the last tempestuous year of US involvement in the war in Vietnam when, after the great majority of US forces had been withdrawn, Hanoi launched its smashing Easter offensive. This study relates how air, as almost the sole remaining US weapon, played a complex and varied role. This consisted not on...
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    35,00 €

  • The Air Force in Southeast Asia. Tactics and Techniques of Electronic Warfare
    Bernard C. Nalty / Bernard CNalty / U.S. Office of Air Force History / U.SOffice of Air Force History
    Electronic Countermeasures in the Air War Against North Vietnam is one of a series of recently declassified monographs on USAF tactics and techniques in Southeast Asia. Electronic countermeasures is but one aspect of the broad subject of electronic warfare which was waged in all its complexity throughout Southeast Asia. Nevertheless, in choosing to deal with this topic. the Off...
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    34,79 €

  • The Air Force in Southeast Asia
    Ralph A. Rowley / Ralph ARowley / U.S. Office of Air Force History / U.SOffice of Air Force History
    Recently declassified study from May 1975. Complete study except short foreword is missing. ...
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    42,57 €

  • Airpower and the Evacuation of Kham Duc (USAF Southeast Asia Monograph Series Volume V, Monograph 7)
    Alan L. Gropman / Office of Air Force History / Raymond B. Furlong
    Originally published in 1976. This narrative describes the evacuation of more than 1,400 American soldiers, Marines, and airmen, and Vietnamese men, women, and children from the Kham Duc Special Forces camp in southern I Corps on 12 May 1968. It treats the geographical and topographical setting, the threat to the camp posed by two regiments of the North Vietnamese Army, and the...
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    16,30 €

  • Aces and Aerial Victories
    Frank R. Futrell / Office of Air Force History / William H. Greenhalgh
    Detailed first-hand accounts by U.S. Air Force fighter pilots who flew combat missions over North Vietnam. This is a reprint of a 1976 work. During the war in Southeast Asia, U.S. Air Force fighter pilots and crewmen repeatedly were challenged by enemy MIG fighters in the skies over North Vietnam. The ensuing air battles were unique in American history because U.S. fighter and...
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    25,53 €

  • ULTRA and the Amy Air Forces in World War II
    Diane P. Putney / Diane PPutney / Office of Air Force History / United States Air Force
    During World War II, the American and British intercepted and read hundreds of thousands of their enemies’ secret military and diplomatic message transmitted by radio. ULTRA was the designation for the signals intelligence derived from German radio communications encrypted by the ENIGMA cipher machine. At the British Government Code and CipherSchool at BletchleyPark, British an...
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    29,67 €

  • 7 December 1941
    John R. Kuborn / Leatrice R. Arakaki / Pacific Air Force Office of History
    An almost exhaustive volume of literature has described and analyzed the Japanese attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Yet despite the key role played by Japanese dominance of the air space over Oahu, little has been published on the role of the Army Air Forces and its unpreparedness to accomplish it air defense mission. In addition, too few ar...
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    28,34 €

  • ULTRA and the Army Air Forces in World War II
    Office of Air Force History / United States Air Force
    Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Lewis F. Powell, Jr., was one of a small group of people specially selected to accept and integrate ULTRA, the most secret signals intelligence from intercepted and decoded German military radio transmissions, with intelligence from all other sources. From May 1944 to the end of the war in Europe, he served as the ULTRA officer on Ge...
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    33,16 €