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Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The First Battle of Britain 1917-1918 and the Origins of British Air Defence written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond H. Fredette
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081735347X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Sky on Fire written by Raymond H. Fredette and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-01-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the developments and deployments of air power in World War I, which forshadowed the decisive role air power played in the World War II and continues to influence military strategies today.
Author : Raymond H. Fredette
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sky on Fire written by Raymond H. Fredette and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H A Jones
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ISBN 13 : 9781783315789
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (157 download)
Download or read book War in the Air. Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force written by H A Jones and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth in the seven volume official history of the RAF in the Great War. This narrates the story of German air attacks on Britain in 1917-1918 and the measures taken to meet them. Volume Five of the official history of the RAF in the Great War completes the story of the German air attacks on Britain with an account of the raids which took place during 1917 and 1918. Their effect upon British war policy is noted, and the narrative includes also home anti-aircraft defence developments, and such matters as the provision of air-raid shelters, the training of pilots for night flying, and the technical equipment of the home defence squadrons.
Author : Raymond H. Fredette
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Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (977 download)
Download or read book The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918 written by Raymond H. Fredette and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond Hector FREDETTE
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Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918, & the Birth of the Royal Air Force; with an Afterword by the Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir John Slessor written by Raymond Hector FREDETTE and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry C. Treadwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760707883
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The First Air War written by Terry C. Treadwell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George K. Williams
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178625025X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I written by George K. Williams and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study measures wartime claims against actual results of the British bombing campaign against Germany in the Great War. Components of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), and the Royal Air Force (RAF) conducted bombing raids between July 1916 and the Armistice. Specifically, Number 3 Wing (RNAS), 41 Wing of Eighth Brigade (RFC), and the Independent Force (IF) bombed German targets from bases in France. Lessons supposedly gleaned from these campaigns heavily influenced British military aviation, underpinning RAF doctrine up to and into the Second World War. Fundamental discrepancies exist, however, between the official verdict and the first-hand evidence of bombing results gathered by intelligence teams of the RAF and the US Air Service. Results of the British bombing efforts were demonstrably more modest, and costs in casualties and wastage far steeper, than previously acknowledged. A preoccupation with “moral effect” came to dominate the British view of their aerial offensives. Maj Gen Hugh M. Trenchard played a pivotal role in bringing this misperception to the forefront of public consciousness. After the Armistice, the potential of strategic bombing was officially extolled to justify the RAF as an independent service. The Air Ministry’s final report must be evaluated as a partisan manifestation of this crusade and not as a definitive final assessment, as it has been mistakenly accepted previously. This study develops and substantiates a comprehensive evaluation of British long-range bombing in the First World War. Its findings run directly counter to the generally held opinion. Natural limitations, technical shortfalls, and aircrews lacking proficiency acted in concert with German defenses to produce far less results than those claimed.
Author : Raymond H. Fredette
Publisher : London : Cassell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918 written by Raymond H. Fredette and published by London : Cassell. This book was released on 1966 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretter om luftkrigen under 1. Verdenskrig
Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199205590
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The First World War written by Michael Howard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Examining how and why the war was fought, as well as the historical controversies that still surround the war, Michael Howard also looks at how peace was ultimately made, and describes the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany.
Author : Kenneth Schaffel
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Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book The Emerging Shield written by Kenneth Schaffel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Sutherland
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783460350
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Battle of Britain 1917 written by Jonathan Sutherland and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the autumn of 1916 the Germans began to equip with the Gotha twin-engine bomber. The Gothas were designed to carry out attacks across the channel against Britain. A group of four squadrons was established in Belgium, and they carried out their first bombing raid towards the end of May 1917. This 22 aircraft sortie, against the town of Folkestone, caused 95 deaths. In mid June a force of 18 Gothas attacked London in broad daylight. Over 90 British fighters met them, but not one Gotha was brought down. This bombing raid caused 162 deaths.From mid-September an even larger, more potent bomber joined the Gothas. The Zeppelin-Staaken Riesenflugzeug or "Giant" bomber. It had a range of about 800km (500 miles). The Gotha/Giant night raids continued throughout 1917, almost unscathed until December when the British began to have success in intercepting the Gothas at night. Anti-aircraft fire was also becoming more effective and the increased use of barrage balloons affected the bombers. By the end of the war a 50-mile long line of barrage balloons surrounded London.In the meantime the Giants continued a small but influential campaign against London. On 16 February, during a four aircraft raid, a Giant dropped a 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) bomb—the largest used by anyone in the war—and blew up a wing of the Chelsea hospital.
Author : Alexander Howlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000387615
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Development of British Naval Aviation, 1914–1918 written by Alexander Howlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced and operationalized aircraft carrier strike, aerial anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing, and the air defence of the British Isles more than 20 years before the outbreak of the Second World War. Traditionally marginalized in a literature dominated by the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force, the RNAS and its innovative practitioners, nevertheless, shaped the fundamentals of air power and contributed significantly to the Allied victory in the First World War. The Development of British Naval Aviation utilizes archival documents and newly published research to resurrect the legacy of the RNAS and demonstrate its central role in Britain’s war effort.
Author : Jonathan Sutherland
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844153452
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Battle of Britain 1917 written by Jonathan Sutherland and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretter om de første tyske bombeangreb på England under 1. verdenskrig. Da de tyske bombefly kom frem i efteråret 1916, kunne de flyve væsentligt højere end noget britisk jagerfly på denne tid.
Author : Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
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Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book The Marne 15 July - 6 August 1918 written by Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson and published by . This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Pugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016890
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Royal Flying Corps, the Western Front and the Control of the Air, 1914–1918 written by James Pugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of 1918 the British Army had successfully mastered the concept of ’all arms’ warfare on the Western Front. This doctrine, integrating infantry, artillery, armoured vehicles and - crucially - air power, was to prove highly effective and formed the basis of major military operations for the next hundred years. Yet, whilst much has been written on the utilisation of ground forces, the air element still tends to be studied in isolation from the army as a whole. In order to move beyond the usual 'aircraft and aces' approach, this book explores the conceptual origins of the control of the air and the role of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) within the British army. In so doing it addresses four key themes. First, it explores and defines the most fundamental air power concept - the control of the air - by examining its conceptual origins before and during the First World War. Second, it moves beyond the popular history of air power during the First World War to reveal the complexity of the topic. Third, it reintegrates the study of air power during the First World War, specifically that of the RFC, into the strategic, operational, organisational, and intellectual contexts of the era, as well as embedding the study within the respective scholarly literatures of these contexts. Fourth, the book reinvigorates an entrenched historiography by challenging the usually critical interpretation of the RFC’s approach to the control of the air, providing new perspectives on air power during the First World War. This includes an exploration of the creation of the RAF and its impact on the development of air power concepts.
Author : Sebastian Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135315981
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Air Power History written by Sebastian Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he 20th century saw air power transformed from novelists' fantasy into stark reality. From string and canvas to precision weaponry and stealth, air power has progressed to become not only the weapon of first political choice, but often the only conceivable option. This rapid development has given rise to considerable debate and controversy with those holding entrenched views rarely slow to shout their case. Many myths have grown over the period, ranging from the once much vaunted ability of air power to win wars alone through to its impact as a coercive tool. This volume examines the theory and practice of air power from its earliest inception. The contributors have been drawn from academia and the military and represent some of the world's leading proponents on the subject. All significant eras on air power employment are examined: some are evidently turning points, while others represent continuous development. Perhaps more importantly, the book highlights the areas that could be considered to be significant, and invites the reader to enter the debate as to whether it constitutes a continuum, a turning point, or indeed a revolution.
