The American Air Service: A Record of Its Problems, Its Difficulties, Its Failures, and Its Final Achievements - Couverture rigide
Présentation de l'éditeur
The A ir Service lias been almost universally misunderstood, even among its friends. It has been so wholly new and so firing to the imagination, its development has been so enshrouded in secrecy on the one hand, and so emblazoned by misrepresentation on the other, that even men actually officers of its staff are bewildered and confused as to the actual facts. It is doubtful that so little of the truth was ever known about an enterprise of such surpassing national importance. The story of the A ir Service is a story of contrasts running from high lights into the deepest shadows. Initiated in a burst of enthusiasm and imagination almost unparalleled in our history, driven along the road towards accomplishment with skill and energy but without the supergenius that alone could have brought success, set upon at the most unfavorable moment by an outburst of public disappointment, yet finally crowned with a superb record over the lines in Belgium, France, and I taly, it is a story that well deserves to be understood. It has had its failures, serious failures indeed, but it has also had its successes. We have heard very much of the former and very little of the latter.
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