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To Command the Sky

The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944

By: Stephen L. McFarland,Wesley Phillips Newton

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To Command the Sky

The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944

By: Stephen L. McFarland,Wesley Phillips Newton

This widely praised study draws from both American and German sources to show how the U.S. Army Air Forces cleared the way for the successful Allied invasion of France. In 1944 a revitalized American leadership abandoned the unsuccessful approach of strategic bombing and instead focused on air superiority, practically chasing the enemy out of the sky and eliminating Germany's supply of trained pilots. Examining the people, technologies, command decisions, and key events of the war over Germany, the authors prove conclusively that the winning of air superiority -- not the success of strategic bombing -- played a more essential part in the Allied victory in Europe

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375

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University of Alabama Press

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0817353461

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9780817353469

Conquering The Night — Army Air Forces Night Fighters At War [Illustrated Edition]

By: Stephen L. McFarland

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Conquering The Night — Army Air Forces Night Fighters At War [Illustrated Edition]

By: Stephen L. McFarland

Includes 16 photos illustrations The author traces the AAF’s development of aerial night fighting, including technology, training, and tactical operations in the North African, European, Pacific, and Asian theaters of war. In this effort the United States never wanted for recruits in what was, from start to finish, an all-volunteer night fighting force. For combatants, a constant in warfare through the ages has been the sanctuary of night, a refuge from the terror of the day’s armed struggle. On the other hand, darkness has offered protection for operations made too dangerous by daylight. Combat has also extended into the twilight as day has seemed to provide too little time for the destruction demanded in modern mass warfare. In World War II the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) flew night-time missions to counter enemy activities under cover of darkness. Allied air forces had established air superiority over the battlefield and behind their own lines, and so Axis air forces had to exploit the night’s protection for their attacks on Allied installations. AAF night fighters sought to deny the enemy use of the night for these attacks. Also, by 1944 Allied daylight air superiority made Axis forces maneuver and resupply at night, by air, land, and sea. U.S. night fighters sought to disrupt these activities as an extension of daylight interdiction and harassment efforts. The AAF would seek to deny the enemy the night, while capitalizing on the night in support of daylight operations.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1786252376

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9781786252371

Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico

By: Stephen H. Lekson

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Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico

By: Stephen H. Lekson

This reappraisal of archaeology conducted at the Saige-McFarland site presents for the first time a substantial body of comparative data from a Mimbres period site in the Gila drainage. Lekson offers a new and controversial interpretation of the Mimbres sequence, reintroducing the concept of the Mangas phase first proposed by the Gila Pueblo investigations of the 1930s and demonstrating a more gradual shift from pithouse to pueblo occupance than has been suggested previously.

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128

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University of Arizona Press

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0816545138

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9780816545131

Deterrence and Escalation in Competition with Russia

The Role of Ground Forces in Preventing Hostile Measures Below Armed Conflict in Europe

By: Stephen Watts,Bryan Rooney,Gene Germanovich,Bruce McClintock,Stephanie Pezard,Clint Reach,Melissa Shostak

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Deterrence and Escalation in Competition with Russia

The Role of Ground Forces in Preventing Hostile Measures Below Armed Conflict in Europe

By: Stephen Watts,Bryan Rooney,Gene Germanovich,Bruce McClintock,Stephanie Pezard,Clint Reach,Melissa Shostak

In this report, the authors seek to understand how the United States might use its military posture in Europe?particularly focusing on ground forces?as part of a strategy to deter Russian malign activities in the competition space.

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Rand Corporation

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1977407781

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9781977407788

Book's by Stephen L. McFarland

To Command the Sky

To Command the Sky

Conquering The Night — Army Air Forces Night Fighters At War [Illustrated Edition]

Conquering The Night — Army Air Forces Night Fighters At War [Illustrated Edition]

Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico

Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico

Deterrence and Escalation in Competition with Russia

Deterrence and Escalation in Competition with Russia

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