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Documenting the racial integration of the Air Force from the end of World War II to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, retired Air Force colonel Alan L. Gropman contends that the service desegregated itself not for moral or political reasons but to improve military effectiveness. First published in 1977, this second edition charts policy changes to date. 31 photos.
This compilation of resources on the United States Air Force Academy includes materials published between 1 January 1983 and 31 December 1989. It updates the third supplement, which was published in 1984. Earlier bibliographies on the Academy include the original, published in 1966, and the first and second supplements, published in 1968 and 1972, respectively. This bibliography does not include articles from local-area newspapers. Reports of specific athletic events are also excluded, regardless of the source. Although recent Academy Assemblies and Harmon Memorial Lectures are a part of this compilation, a number of materials published at the Academy are not included. Finally, a few items are cited which pre-date the years covered by this supplement. These were not listed in previous bibliographies. The basic arrangement is by subject.
West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.S. military air and space power from the earliest days of mechanized flight through the establishment of the U.S. Air Force in 1947, and continuing through the Persian Gulf War. These graduates served at a time when the world's greatest wave of technological advancement occurred: in aviation, nuclear weapons, rocketry, ICBMs, computers, satellite systems in inner space and man in outer space. This history traces the advancement of weapons and space technology that became the hallmark of the U.S. Air Force, and the pivotal role that West Point graduates played in integrating them into a wide variety of Air Force systems and programs. Many became aircraft commanders, test pilots, astronauts and, later in their careers, general officers who helped shape and implement technologies still in use today.
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Contains papers presented at the Air Force Historical Foundation Symposium, held at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on September 21-22, 1995. Topics addressed are: Pt. 1, The Formative Years, 1945-1961; Pt. 2, Mission Development and Exploitation Since 1961; and Pt. 3, Military Space Today and Tomorrow. Includes notes, abbreviations & acronyms, an index, and photographs.