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Surveys the history of blacks in the armed forces from the 1600s to the 1980s.
More than 50 aircraft types described, more than 140 photos, over 120 accurately detailed line drawings and 15 color profiles.
An account of the exploits of the American pilots led by General Chennault in China during World War II, who became famous throughout the world as The Flying Tigers.
Many black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army during World War II hoped that they might make permanent gains as a result of their military service and their willingness to defend their country. They were soon disabused of such illusions. Taps for a Jim Crow Army is a powerful collection of letters written by black soldiers in the 1940s to various government and nongovernment officials. The soldiers expressed their disillusionment, rage, and anguish over the discrimination and segregation they experienced in the Army. Most black troops were denied entry into army specialist schools; black officers were not allowed to command white officers; black soldiers were served poorer food and were forced to ride Jim Crow military buses into town and to sit in Jim Crow base movie theaters. In the South, German POWs could use the same latrines as white American soldiers, but blacks could not. The original foreword by Benjamin Quarles, professor emeritus of history at Morgan State University, and a new foreword by Bernard C. Nalty, the chief historian in the Office of Air Force History, offer rich insights into the world of these soldiers.
The collective effort of ten military historians describes World War II's Pacific campaign, describing each step of the conflict with clarity and in exhaustive detail. Color maps. Photos, many in color.
The air campaign mounted against North Vietnam was the first time that an integrated air defense system based around radar-controlled guns and surface-to-air missiles had been encountered. Proponents of surface-to-air missiles had claimed that their lethality would drive manned aircraft from the battlefield. At first, the U.S. Air Force was hard-pressed to neutralize North Vietnam's radar-controlled defenses, but did prevail. Electronic countermeasures support for the air war against North Vietnam included stand-off jamming, Wild Weasel operations, the use of self protection pods, and the employment of chaff. Using all these techniques, Linebacker II saw the B-52s of Strategic Air Command facing the most effective air defense system the Soviet Union could provide. The B-52s won; the much-heralded surface-to-air missiles were scoring a lower kill rate than German defenses in World War Two. This campaign laid the foundations for the technology used by the USAF to neutralize enemy defenses ever since.
Beskriver de amerikanske flystyrkers historiske udvikling i perioden 1907-1950.
Contents: basic racial policy; African-Americans & the Marines; change comes to the Marine Corps; face-to-face with segregation; the 'great white father': Col. Samuel A. Woods, Jr.; building the 51st Defense Battalion; the Stewards' Branch; the 51st Defense Battalion at war; the death march; the route West; the 52nd Defense Battalion; combat service support; seizing the Mariana Islands, Saipan, Tinian, & Guam; mop-up on Guam; the 3rd battle of Guam; Okinawa, Japan, & China; returning home; pride mixed with bitterness. Maps & photos.