Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower

Daso, Dik A.;Daso, Dik Allan

ISBN 10: 156098824X / ISBN 13: 9781560988243

Edité par Smithsonian Inst Pr, Washington, D. C, 2000

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314pp/illus. Shows how Arnold battled both in and out of the government to not only win the war against Germany and Japan, but to lay the groundwork for today's Air Force. Clean.

N° de réf. du vendeur 010524

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower
• Éditeur: Smithsonian Inst Pr, Washington, D. C
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 156098824X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781560988243
• Reliure: Cloth
• Édition: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Aviation
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • World War II

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Présentation de l'éditeur

   From 1938 to 1946, as the first Commanding General of the US Army Air Forces—the largest, most powerful air armada that has ever been assembled—Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold fought World War II not in the field but in Congress, on the Army General Staff, in factories, and in universities. His vision of airpower as more than just sophisticated aircraft not only established US air supremacy during the war but also laid the foundations for the technology, infrastructure, and philosophy of today's air force.

   The first biographer to draw from all of Hap Arnold's personal papers as well as recently declassified military documents, Dik Alan Daso traces a career centered around the airplane, the technological achievement that revolutionized twenieth-century warfare.

   Describing the technology, institutions, and individuals—from the Wright Brothers to the president of Caltech—that influenced Arnold's decisions as a general, Daso shows how the peacetime experiences of World War II's foremost military airman shaped the evolution of American military aviation as a whole.