Owen, Robert C., 1951-

Air Mobility A Brief History of the American Experience / [Recurso electrónico] : Robert C. Owen. - Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2013 - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Libro Electrónico

9781597978521 1597978523




United States. Air Force --Transportation--History.


Transportation, Military--History.--United States
Airlift, Military--History.--United States


Electronic books.

UC333 / .O84 2013

358.4/40973