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Creating a Dignified Past

Museums and the Colonial Revival

By: Geoffrey Louis Rossano

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Creating a Dignified Past

Museums and the Colonial Revival

By: Geoffrey Louis Rossano

This volume is a collection of seven fascinating articles...This is a revealing book that probes beneath the surface of what one participant calls the 'sheep to shawl' displays of such historic sites. It is a refreshing work well worth reading.'-THE HUDSON VALLEY REGIONAL REVIEW

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847676900

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9780847676903

Stalking the U-Boat

U.S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I

By: Geoffrey L. Rossano

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U.S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I

By: Geoffrey L. Rossano

An exceptional piece of scholarship. Rossano clearly points out that military organizations in general, and a naval air force in particular, are built from the ground up and not the other way around. While we celebrate the exploits of the pilots, Rossano reminds us that there were myriad mechanics, constructors, paymasters, and even some ship drivers who played a vital role in naval aviation during WWI."--Craig C. Felker, U.S. Naval Academy "A fine book that will stand for many years as the definitive study of U.S. naval aviation in Europe. Well-researched and written, the book ranges widely, from the high-level planning in Washington for a naval air war to moving thousands of men and hundreds of aircraft across the ocean to the routine but dangerous training, patrol, and bombing flights that constituted the navy’s air mission in World War I."--William F. Trimble, author of Attack from the Sea Stalking the U-Boatis the first and only comprehensive study of U.S. naval aviation operations in Europe during WWI. The navy's experiences in this conflict laid the foundations for the later emergence of aviation as a crucial--sometimes dominant--element of fleet operations, yet those origins have been previously poorly understood and documented. Begun as antisubmarine operations, naval aviation posed enormous logistical, administrative, personnel, and operational problems. How the USN developed this capability--on foreign soil in the midst of desperate conflict--makes a fascinating tale sure to appeal to all military and naval historians.

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University Press of Florida

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0813072263

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9780813072265

Striking the Hornets' Nest

Naval Aviation and the Origins of Strategic Bombing in World War I

By: Geoffrey L Rossano,Thomas Wildenberg

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Naval Aviation and the Origins of Strategic Bombing in World War I

By: Geoffrey L Rossano,Thomas Wildenberg

Striking the Hornets’ Nest provides the first extensive analysis of the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy’s most innovative aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world’s first dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written about the Navy’s aviation activities in World War I and even less on the NBG. Standard studies of strategic bombing tend to focus on developments in the Royal Air Force or the U.S. Army Air Service. This work concentrates on the origins of strategic bombing in World War I, and the influence this phenomenon had on the Navy’s future use of the airplane. The NBG program faced enormous logistical and personnel challenges. Demands for aircraft, facilities, and personnel were daunting, and shipping shortages added to the seemingly endless delays in implementing the program. Despite the impediments, the Navy (and Marine Corps) triumphed over organizational hurdles and established a series of bases and depots in northern France and southern England in the late summer and early fall of 1918. Ironically, by the time the Navy was ready to commence bombing missions, the German retreat had caused abandonment of the submarine bases the NBG had been created to attack. The men involved in this program were pioneers, overcoming major obstacles only to find they were no longer needed. Though the Navy rapidly abandoned its use of strategic bombing after World War I, their brief experimentation directed the future use of aircraft in other branches of the armed forces. It is no coincidence that Robert Lovett, the young Navy reserve officer who developed much of the NBG program in 1918, spent the entire period of World War II as Assistant Secretary of War for Air where he played a crucial role organizing and equipping the strategic bombing campaign unleashed against Germany and Japan. Rossano and Wildenberg have provided a definitive study of the NBG, a subject that has been overlooked for too long.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612513913

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9781612513911

Creating a Dignified Past

Museums and the Colonial Revival

By: Geoffrey Louis Rossano

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Stalking the U-Boat

U.S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I

By: Geoffrey L. Rossano

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U.S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I

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Creating a Dignified Past

Creating a Dignified Past

Stalking the U-Boat

Stalking the U-Boat

Striking the Hornets' Nest

Striking the Hornets' Nest

Creating a Dignified Past

Creating a Dignified Past

Stalking the U-Boat

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