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Air mobility : a brief history of the American experience /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owen, Robert C., 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Airlift, Military > United States > History.
Transportation, Military > United States > History.
United States. > Air Force > Transportation > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Discovering air mobility
  • Military air transport in the 1920s
  • Civil aviation between the wars
  • Military air transport in the 1930s
  • Mobilizing air transport for global war
  • Air transport in World War II
  • Troop carrier aviation in World War II
  • Airlift consolidation in the 1940s
  • The Berlin Airlift
  • The Korean War
  • Troop carrier aviation in the 1950s
  • Army aviation in the 1950s
  • Air transport in the 1950s
  • The national military airlift hearings
  • Inventing the civil reserve airlift fleet
  • Vietnam: the air mobility war
  • Nickel grass
  • Airlift consolidation in the 1970s
  • Airlift in the 1980s
  • Acquisition of the C-17
  • The first Gulf War
  • Messing with success
  • The 1990s-years of steady-state surge
  • The 2000s-years of steady-state war
  • Haiti 2010-the way it works
  • The secret is people.